Deckertichthys aureolus

• 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; Gerreidae; Deckertichthys; Deckertichthys aureolus; Yukon; Baja; Milton; Scripps; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5605941; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5605941

Deckertichthys aureolus (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882). Golden Mojarra. To 20 cm (7.9 in) (Robertson and Allen 2008). Just south of Bahía San Quintin [“Santa Maria Bay” (30°23.8’N, 115°56’W)], northern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Peru, including Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2008). Depth: 0 to 43 m (140 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2015; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). We follow Vergara-Solana et al. (2014) and remove this species from the genus Diapterus. 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 160, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008