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Lagocephalus lagocephalus lagocephalus (Linnaeus 1758
Description
Lagocephalus lagocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758).
Oceanic Puffer. To 61 cm (24 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Yamada in Nakabo 2002), and southern Kuril Islands (Parin 2003); Alder Creek Beach, Mendocino County, northern California (Miller and Lea 1972) to Peru (Grove and Lavenberg 1997), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997); at least one Gulf of California record (23°39.35’N, 109°40.77’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Oceanic; depth: near surface (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) to at least 1,000 m (3,280 ft) (Shipp in Carpenter 2003).
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 225, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Tetraodontidae
- Genus
- Lagocephalus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Tetraodontiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- lagocephalus (Linnaeus
- Species
- lagocephalus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lagocephalus lagocephalus (Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Parin, N. V. (2003) An annotated catalogue of fish-like vertebrates and fishes of the seas of Russia and adjacent countries: Part 3. Orders Perciformes (excluding suborders Gobioidei, Zoarcoidei and Stichaeoidei) and Tetraodontiformes. Journal of Ichthyology, 43, S 1 - S 40.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
- Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
- Carpenter, K. E. (Ed.). (2003) The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Atlantic. Volume 1. Mollusca, Crustacea, Hagfishes, Sharks, Batoid Fishes, and Chimaeras. Volume 2. Bony Fishes Part 1 (Acipenseridae to Grammatidae). Volume 3. Bony Fishes Part 2 (Opistognathidae to Molidae), Sea Turtles and Marine Mammals. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists Special Publication, No. 5. FAO, Rome. [Date on cover is 2002, but publication date is 2003.]