Rhencus macracanthus (Gunther 1864)
- 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
- Haemulidae
- genus
- Rhencus
- species
- Rhencus macracanthus
description
Bigspine Grunt or Longspine Grunt. To 46.4 cm (18.3 in) TL (Hernández-Padilla et al. 2020). Boca Soledad (25 ° 23 ’ N, 112 ° 06 ’ W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Ecuador (Béarez 1996), including Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002). Marine, brackish, and fresh waters (Fricke et al. 2020); depth: 0 – 59 m (192 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). We follow Tavera et al. (2018) in moving Pomadasys macracanthus (Günther, 1864) to the genus Rhencus.
Name
- Homonyms
- Rhencus macracanthus (Gunther 1864)