Uraspis helvola
Uraspis helvola (Forster, 1801). Cottonmouth Jack, Whitemouth Jack, or Whitetongue Jack. To 58 cm (22.8 in) TL (Jiménez Prado and Béarez 2004). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to perhaps southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh and Shevtsov 2001), and southern Japan (Senou in Nakabo 2002) (althoug...
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2021
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Online Access: | https://zenodo.org/record/5605852 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5605852 |
Summary: | Uraspis helvola (Forster, 1801). Cottonmouth Jack, Whitemouth Jack, or Whitetongue Jack. To 58 cm (22.8 in) TL (Jiménez Prado and Béarez 2004). Indo-Pacific; western Pacific Ocean north to perhaps southern Kuril Islands (Savinykh and Shevtsov 2001), and southern Japan (Senou in Nakabo 2002) (although these may be Uraspis secunda (Poey, 1860); Santa Catalina Island, southern California (Miller and Lea 1972); southernmost Gulf of California (John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.), and at a number of more southerly locations (Robertson and Allen 2008) to Ecuador (Béarez 1996), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Depth: surface (under drifting material) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 10–300 m (33–984 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002). The Santa Catalina Island specimen was originally identified as Uraspis secunda (Poey 1860) (Fitch 1972). However, U. secunda appears to be an Atlantic and Indo-Central Pacific species (William Smith-Vaniz and Ross Robertson, pers. comm. to M.L.). 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 156, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 |
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