Sphoeroides angusticeps (Jenyns, 1842)

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 225

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5609961

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6-FF71-FF55-98EA-FAC8F955360C

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Plazi

scientific name

Sphoeroides angusticeps (Jenyns, 1842)
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Sphoeroides angusticeps (Jenyns, 1842) View in CoL .

Narrow-headed Puffer. To 25 cm (9.8 in) TL ( Fischer et al. 1995). Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California ( Rodríguez-Romero et al. 2011); Mazatlán, Mexico (FMNH 96387), Islas Galápagos ( Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Benthic; depth: at least as shallow as 2 m (6 ft) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to 20 m (66 ft) ( Robertson and Allen 2015). Once thought to be endemic to the Islas Galápagos, but apparently found in several places in the tropical and subtropical eastern Pacific.

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