Galapagos Species Database
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Anisotremus espinozai
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Actinopteri
Order
Eupercaria incertae sedis
Suborder
Percoidei
Family
Haemulidae
Genus
Anisotremus
Species
espinozai
Taxon category: Accepted
Holotype: MECN-DP 4358, tissue number-46746, 28.37 cm LE. Galapagos Islands, Cerro Gallina - Isla Santa Cruz (00°43'40.2"N; 90°39'54.32"W). 13 February 2017. Col. Rolando Quetzalcoatl Torres-Garcia, Juan Carlos Quevedo-Machado, and Paola Nallely Palmerin-Serrano. Paratypes: Galapapagos Archipelago CPUM-13494, Islote Espejo, Isla Marchena (00°18'46.18"N; 90°24'4.64"W). Col. Dahiana Arcila, Adrian Jaramillo-Lopez, Rosa Gabriela Beltran-Lopez, 3 specimens, CPUM-13496, Poza Lobos, Isla Marchena (00°19'6.29"N; 90°28'38.34"W). Col. Dahiana Arcila, Adrian Jaramillo-Lopez, Rosa Gabriela Beltran-Lopez, 1 specimen, CPUM-13495, Bahia Darwin, Isla Genovesa (00°18'58.38"N; 89°57'15.71"W). Col.Yareli Lopez-Arroyo, Omar Dominguez-Dominguez, Francisco Martinez-Servin, Carmen del Rocio Pedraza-Marron, Eduardo Espinoza, Emanuell Duarte-Ribeiro, 4 specimens and CPUM-6073, Punta Pitt, Isla San Cristobal (00°42'44.08"N; 89°14'51.91"W). Col. Salvador Romero-Gallardo, Eloisa Torres-Hernandez, Oscar Lasso-Alcala, Julio Cesar Orantes-Avalos, 1 Specimen and Isla del Coco, Costa Rica specimens CPUM-14115, Frente a Ulloa, and CPUM-14116, Manuelita Profundo (Acevedo-Álvarez et al., 2021)
Origin: Native
Distribution: Galapagos islands: santa Cruz, Marchena, Genovesa and Costa Rica in Isla del Coco (Acevedo-Álvarez et al., 2021).
- Acevedo-Álvarez, E. A Ruiz-Campos, G.& Domínguez-Domínguez, O. (2021) Population-level morphological variation of Anisotremus interruptus (Gill, 1862) (Perciformes: Haemulidae) in the Tropical Eastern Pacific, with the description of two new species. Zootaxa. 4975(1): 141-158. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4975.1.5
- 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.
- IUCN (2023) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2023-1. Https://www.iucnredlist.org
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"Galapagos Species Database, Anisotremus espinozai", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20521. Accessed 31 October 2026.