Dajaus monticola (Bancroft 1834)

Angulo, Arturo, Betts, Joel T., González-Alemán, Néstor J., Castañeda, Edgar, Berghe, Eric Van Den, Elías, Diego J., Mcmahan, Caleb D. & Matamoros, Wilfredo A., 2023, Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families, Zootaxa 5376 (1), pp. 1-89 : 66

Dajaus monticola (Bancroft 1834) ( Fig. 9L ). Mountain Mullet; Tepemechín, Mechín, Machín, Lisa, Lisa de Río , Lisa de Montaña, Sabalete Montañero

Vouchers: UCR 0052-001 (14), 0184-006 (19), 0457-010 (3), 0461-009 (5), 1065-006 (29) and 1066-005 (8); other collections: CUMV 64680 (1), MCZ 30724 (1), 30585 (1), UF 106607 (1), 106610 (1) and UMMZ 199648 (1). Distribution: Western Atlantic and eastern Pacific oceans; from North Carolina, USA, to Venezuela, including the West Indies, in the western Atlantic, and from the Gulf of California, Mexico, to northern Peru, including the Galapagos and Cocos islands, in the Eastern Pacific; entering estuaries and littoral lagoons and ascending river courses; ( Nicaragua) Co, UI, WK, Pr, GM, KP, Es, BF, IM, To, Sa, SJ, RF, LN (Atlantic), Ch, Ne, ER, PN and Ni (Pacific); 0–405 masl; Per, Dia, Cat. Occurrence and conservation status: Nat; LC (2019), population trend stable.

Literature: Villa (1982: 207, as Agonostomus monticola —synonym; detailed description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution and ecology), Carr & Giovannoli (1994: 106, as A. monticola —synonym; brief description, including information on distribution and ecology), Bussing (1998: 384, as A. monticola —synonym; brief description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology), González-Alemán (2006: 83, as A. monticola —synonym; brief description, including an illustration, and information on distribution and ecology), Gros & Miguel-Frithz (2010: 141, 249, as A. monticola —synonym; brief description, including illustrations, and information on distribution and ecology, plus indigenous science and ethnoichthyology), Robertson & Allen (2015: 785, as A. monticola —synonym; detailed description, including illustrations, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology), van den Berghe (2015: 37, as A. monticola —synonym; listed, including an illustration and information on distribution and ecology), Robertson & Van Tassell (2019: 4696, as A. monticola —synonym; detailed description, including illustrations, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology) and Angulo (2021: 59; listed, including information on distribution).

Figures

FIGURE 9. Continental fishes of Nicaragua, part 4; (A) Parachromis managuensis (Cichlidae), Tributary of the Sarapiquí River (Sa), photo by Arturo Angulo, November 11, 2018; (B) Vieja maculicauda (Cichlidae), Punta Gorda, Blue Fields-Punta Gorda (BF), photo by Luis Fernando López, April 13, 2020; (C) Atherinella hubbsi (Atherinopsidae), Tributary of the Sarapiquí River (Sa), photo by Arturo Angulo, November 11, 2018; (D) Cynodonichthys isthmensis (Rivulidae), UCR 00475-001, La Gateada, Econdido River (Es), collected on April 19, 1970; (E) Alfaro cultratus (Poeciliidae), Tributary of the Sarapiquí River (Sa), photo by Arturo Angulo, November 11, 2018; (F) Belonesox belizanus (Poeciliidae), Punta Gorda, Blue Fields-Punta Gorda (BF), photo by Eric P. van den Berghe, November-December 2013; (G) Brachyrhaphis holdridgei (Poeciliidae), Punta Gorda, Blue Fields-Punta Gorda (BF), photo by Eric P. van den Berghe, April 8, 2014; (H) Priapichthys annectens (Poeciliidae), Tributary of the Sarapiquí River (Sa), photo by Arturo Angulo, November 11, 2018; (I) Anableps dowii (Anablepidae), Golfo de Fonseca, Pacífico de Nicaragua (PN), photo by Eric P. van den Berghe, November 16, 2019; (J) Tylosurus crocodilus (Belonidae), Punta Gorda, Blue Fields-Punta Gorda (BF), photo by Eric P. van den Berghe, November-December 2013; (K) Hyporhamphus unifasciatus (Hemiramphidae), Punta Gorda, Blue Fields-Punta Gorda (BF), photo by Eric P. van den Berghe, November-December 2013; (L) Dajaus monticola (Mugilidae), Punta Gorda, Blue Fields-Punta Gorda (BF), photo by Eric P. van den Berghe, April 5, 2014; (M) Joturus pichardi (Mugilidae), Punta Gorda, Blue Fields-Punta Gorda (BF), photo by Eric P. van den Berghe, April 5, 2014; (N) Gobiesox cephalus (Gobiesocidae), Tributary of the Escondido River (Es), photo by Alex Gallardo, June 11, 2019; (O) Lutjanus argentiventris (Lutjanidae), Punta Gorda, Blue Fields-Punta Gorda (BF), photo by Eric P. van den Berghe, April 23, 2014.