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Scarus compressus
Description
Scarus compressus (Osburn & Nichols, 1916).
Azure Parrotfish. To at least 68 cm (26.8 in) TL (Jiménez Prado and Béarez 2004). Southern entrance to Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (Daniel Gotshall, pers. comm. to M.L.) to northern Gulf of California (González-Cuéllar et al. 2012), and Ecuador (Béarez 1996), including Islas Galápago and other offshore islands (Robertson and Allen 2015). Depth: 1–25 m (3–83 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Allen and Robertson 1994).
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 177, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Scaridae
- Genus
- Scarus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Osburn & Nichols
- Species
- compressus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Scarus compressus (Osburn, 1916) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Jimenez Prado, P. & Bearez, P. (2004) Peces marinos del Ecuador continental / marine fishes of continental Ecuador. SIMBIOE / NAZCA / IFEA TOMO II, Quito.
- Gonzalez-Cuellar, O. T., Reyes-Bonilla, H., Fourriere, M., Rojo, M., Hernandez-Velasco, A., Sanchez-Alcantara, I. & Pfister, T. (2012) Range extensions of four species of parrotfishes (Scaridae) in the northern Gulf of California, Mexico. Cybium, 37, 223 - 226.
- Bearez, P. (1996) Lista de los peces marinos del Ecuador continental. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 44, 731 - 741.
- Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages
- Allen, G. R. & Robertson, D. R. (1994) Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.