Nomeus gronovii (Gmelin 1789)
- 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
- Nomeidae
- genus
- Nomeus
- species
- Nomeus gronovii
description
Man-of-War Fish. To 40 cm (15.7 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Circumglobal; tip of southern Baja California (Robertson and Allen 2015), and Gulf of California (Page et al. 2013) to Peru (Robertson and Allen 2002), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Juveniles epipelagic; adults deeper, possibly benthopelagic (Watson in Moser 1996); depth: surface to 1,000 m (3,280 ft) (Mundy 2005).
Name
- Homonyms
- Nomeus gronovii (Gmelin 1789)