Boops boops (Linnaeus, 1758)

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 : 2246

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https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222930210138359

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5262923

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scientific name

Boops boops (Linnaeus, 1758)
status

 

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Reference material. Accra, May 1938 (Irvine 264); Prampram, September 1938 (Irvine 314)— BMNH 2001.5 .2.28 (one: 141 mm SL); Accra, October 1938 (Irvine 347); Labadi, January or June? 1936 (A. P. Brown 3) .

Distribution. Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic from Norway to Angola (Quéro et al., 1990).

On average about 50 tonnes of this species are caught in the region each year ( FAO, 2000).

Four species are likely to be found in the Gulf of Guinea (Shipp, 1981) and two were recorded by Irvine from Ghana. On average about 75 tonnes of triggerfishes are reported to be caught in the region each year (FAO, 2000).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Perciformes

Family

Sparidae

Genus

Boops