Prognathodes falcifer (Hubbs & Rechnitzer 1958)
- 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
- Chaetodontidae
- genus
- Prognathodes
- species
- Prognathodes falcifer
description
Scythe Butterflyfish or Scythe-marked Butterflyfish. To 17 cm (6.8 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Santa Cruz Island, southern California (Richards and Engle 2001), along the outer Baja California Coast (Benjamin Frable), eastern Gulf of California (Benjamin Frable, pers. comm. to M. L.), Islas Revillagigeos (Benjamin Frable), and Isla Galápagos (McCosker and Rosenblatt, 2010). Depth: 3 – 270 m (10 – 886 ft) (min.: Pérez-España et al. 1996; max.: McCosker et al. 1997).