Opistognathus punctatus Peters 1869
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Perciformes
- family
- Opistognathidae
- genus
- Opistognathus
- species
- Opistognathus punctatus
description
Finespotted Jawfish. To 40.6 cm (16.2 in) TL (Thomson et al. 1979). Bahía San Ignacio, southern Baja California (Danemann and De La Cruz-Agüero 1993) into northern Gulf of California to Colombia (Robertson and Allen 2015). Benthic; depth: 1 – 24 m (4 – 80 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California).
Name
- Homonyms
- Opistognathus punctatus Peters 1869