Coryphaena equiselis Linnaeus 1758

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
Coryphaenidae: genus
Coryphaena: species
Coryphaena equiselis

description

Pompano Dolphinfish. To 207 cm (83 in) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983), or only to 127 cm (50 in) in (Robertson and Allen 2008). Not always correctly distinguished from Coryphaena hippurus Linnaeus, 1758, and the larger sizes reported likely are from that species. Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Sea of Japan (Parin 2003); 43 Fathom Bank, southern California (about 32 ° 39.3 ’ N, 117 ° 58.3 ’ W) (Walker et al. 2020) to at least Ecuador (Béarez 1996), including south-western Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002). Depth: Surface to 50 m (164 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Robertson and Allen 2008).

Name

Homonyms: Coryphaena equiselis Linnaeus 1758