Spicara alta (Osorio, 1917)

Edwards, A. J., Gill, A. C. & Abohweyere, P. O., 2003, A revision of F. R. Irvine’s Ghanaian marine fishes in the collections of The Natural History Museum, London, Journal of Natural History 37 (18), pp. 2213-2267 : 2247

Spicara alta (Osorio, 1917)

Irvine name. Spicara sp.

Reference material. Accra, May 1938 (Irvine 265)— BMNH 1938.12 .15.13 (one: 113.5 mm SL) .

Distribution. Coast of West Africa from Senegal to southern Angola (Quéro et al., 1990).

Irvine thought that this fish might eventually prove to represent a species new to science, but it appears to be a species described from Morocco by the Portuguese ichthyologist Balthazar Osorio in 1917.