Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Orthopristis cantharinus (Jenyns 1840) based in Fricke, R. et al. (2023). The genus is feminine, but in literature specific names are conjugated in masculine (e.g. O. cantharinus, O. chalceus, etc.) (Parenti, 2019).

Origin: Endemic

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: Eastern Pacific: Pacific coast of southern Baja California Sur (Mexico) south to Peru, including Galapagos Islands (Ecuador), possibly endemic to Galapagos Islands (Ecuador) Fricke, et al. (2023).

• Fricke, R. Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. eds. (2022) ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: GENERA, SPECIES, REFERENCES. (http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp). Electronic version.
• 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.
• Grove, J.S. Lavenberg, R.J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford California. 862 pp.
• IUCN (2023) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2023-1. Https://www.iucnredlist.org
• Parenti, Paolo. (2019) An annotated checklist of the fishes of the family Haemulidae (Teleostei: Perciformes) Iranian Journal of Ichthyology, 6(3), 150-196.