Second Specimen of the Costa Rican scorpionfish, Scorpaena cocosensis (Scorpaenidae): the First Record from the Galápagos Islands, with Fresh Color Notes on the Species
A single specimen (90.9 mm standard length) of a scorpionfish, Scorpaena cocosensis Motomura, previously known only from the holotype from the Cocos Islands, Costa Rica, was collected by the manned submersible Johnson Sea-Link off Darwin Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. The Galápagos specimen rep...
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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日本生物地理学会
2009
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10232/22401 https://ir.kagoshima-u.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=2877 https://ir.kagoshima-u.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=2877&item_no=1&attribute_id=16&file_no=1 |
Summary: | A single specimen (90.9 mm standard length) of a scorpionfish, Scorpaena cocosensis Motomura, previously known only from the holotype from the Cocos Islands, Costa Rica, was collected by the manned submersible Johnson Sea-Link off Darwin Island, Galápagos Islands, Ecuador. The Galápagos specimen represents the second specimen of the species and an approximate 800 km southwestward range extension from the previously known locality. A color photograph of S. cocosensis when fresh is provided here for the first time. |
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