Centropomus nigrescens Gunther 1864

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Perciformes; Centropomidae; Centropomus; Centropomus nigrescens; Yukon; Baja; Milton; Scripps; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5605650; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5605650

Centropomus nigrescens Günther, 1864. Black Snook. To 117 cm (46 in) TL (Bussing in Fischer et al. 1995). Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Paita, Peru (Chirichigno 1974), including lower Gulf of California (Bussing in Fischer et al. 1995). Marine, brackish, and fresh waters (Fricke et al. 2020); depth: to 25 m (82 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002). Centropomus nigrescens Günther, 1864, is an invalid name, as it is preoccupied by C. nigrescens Risso, 1810, a species in the family Moronidae (Eschmeyer 1998). 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 144, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008