Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Author
Love, Milton S.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Author
Bizzarro, Joseph J.
0000-0002-2412-9357
joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov
Author
Cornthwaite, Maria
0000-0002-1528-3272
maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Author
Frable, Benjamin W.
0000-0003-4525-0671
bfrable@ucsd.edu
Author
Maslenikov, Katherine P.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
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Zootaxa
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Eucinostomus gracilis
(Gill, 1862)
.
Graceful Mojarra
or Slender Mojarra. To
23.9 cm
(
9.4 in
) TL (
Amezcua Linares 1996
). Bahía de Ballenas (
26°39.7’N
,
113°18.7’W
), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to northern Peru (
Chirichigno and Vélez 1998
), including southern Gulf of California (Bussing in
Fischer
et al.
1995
) and Islas Galápagos (
Grove and Lavenberg 1997
). Marine, brackish, and fresh waters (
Fricke
et al.
2020
); depth: in ocean, surface to
1–112 m
(
3–367 ft
) (min.: Gonzáles-Acosta
et al.
1999; max.:
Amezcua Linares 1996
).
Eucinostomus californiensis
(Gill, 1862)
and
E. gracilis
are synonymous. The name
E. californiensis
was selected as the correct name by
Jordan
and Evermann (1898)
but this has been largely overlooked and
E. gracilis
is the name usually seen.