Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

New record for ECUADOR – Galapagos Islands in Isla Darwin, Arco Darwin; 01.674°N, 091.990°W; 5 m depth; 15.VII.2021; A. Morgan-Estapé observer; 4 individuals photographed (Robertson et al., 2021).

Origin: Vagrant

Distribution: Indo-Pacific: Red Sea south to Natal, South Africa and east to the Marquesas and Tuamoto islands, north to southern Japan, south to the southern Great Barrier Reef and New Caledonia (Froese & Pauly, 2022). FishBase.). Galapagos Islands: Darwin Islands in Darwin Arch (Robertson et al., 2021).

• Froese, R. D. Pauly. Eds. (2021) FishBase World Wide Web electronic publication. www.fishbase.org,
• Grove, J.S. Long, D.J., Robertson, D.R. & Victor, B.C. (2022) List of Fishes of the Galapagos Archipelago, Ecuador. Journal of the Ocean Science Foundation, 39, 14–22.
• Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
• Robertson, D. R., Morgan-Estapé, A. L., & Estapé, C. J. (2021) Acanthurus mata (Cuvier, 1829), Elongate Surgeonfish (Acanthuridae), newly recorded in the Tropical Eastern Pacific. Check List, 17(6), 1609–1614. https://doi.org/10.15560/17.6.1609