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Syacium maculiferum (Garman, 1899)

Lenguado de manchas claras, Clearspot flounder

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Chordata

Class
Teleostei

Order
Pleuronectiformes

Family
Paralichthyidae

Genus
Syacium

Species
maculiferum

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Citharichthys maculifer Garman, 1899, Cyclopsetta maculifera (Garman, 1899) (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Vagrant

Status

Data deficient

Distribution

Distribution: Eastern Central Pacific: Panama and Galápagos (Froese and Pauly, 2021).

References

  • 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.
  • IUCN (2023) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2022-2 Https://www.iucnredlist.org

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