Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
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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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2021-10-19
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Mugil setosus
Gilbert, 1892
.
Liseta Mullet
. Because the previous reported maximum length record,
91 cm
(
15.8 in
) TL (
McEachran and Fechhelm 1998
), likely represents
Mugil curema
, the maximum size of this species is unclear. The largest specimen in the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection is
39 cm
(
15.4 in
) SL. Mission Creek, Santa Barbara County, southern California (Camm Swift, pers. comm. to M.L.) to
Chile
(Harrison in
Fischer
et al.
1995
), including Gulf of California (
Robertson and Allen 2002
), and Islas Galápagos (
Grove and Lavenberg 1997
). Shallow marine, brackish, and fresh waters (Harrison in
Fischer
et al.
1995
, Argulo
et al.
2020); depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to
25 m
(
82 ft
) (min.:
Thomson and Lehner 1976
; max.:
Amezcua Linares 1996
). We note that
Britzke
et al.
(2019)
determined that fish identified as “
Mugil curema
Valenciennes, 1836
” from the eastern Pacific are, in fact,
Mugil setosus
Gilbert, 1892
. Their work, and that of
Menezes
et al.
(2015)
, limit the geographic range of
M. curema
to the western South Atlantic. Further research (
Neves
et al.
2020
) suggests that
Mugil curema
is a species complex.