Heterodontus mexicanus Taylor & Castro-Aguirre 1972

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Elasmobranchii; Heterodontiformes; Heterodontidae; Heterodontus; Heterodontus mexicanus; Beaufort Sea; Alaska; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5600812; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FF9DFFB998EAFC04FBB134EC

Heterodontus mexicanus Taylor & Castro-Aguirre, 1972. Mexican Horn Shark . To about 100 cm (39.4 in) TL (Ramírez-Amaro et al. 2013). De La Cruz-Agüero et al. (1997) list the maximum length as much larger, 1.7 m TL (5.6 ft). Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (De La Cruz-Agüero et al. 1994), into the Gulf of California (Compagno 1984), and possibly to northern Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 67 m (218 ft) (min.: Pollom et al. 2020c; max.: Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California); reports to 250 m (820 ft) (Pollom et al. 2020c) are undocumented. Published as part of 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, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 13, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008