Rhencus macracanthus

• 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; Actinopterygii; Perciformes; Haemulidae; Rhencus; Rhencus macracanthus; Beaufort Sea; Alaska; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5605995; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FF33FF1798EAF984F95A376D

Rhencus macracanthus (Günther, 1864). Bigspine Grunt or Longspine Grunt . To 46.4 cm (18.3 in) TL (Hernández-Padilla et al. 2020). Boca Soledad (25°23’N, 112°06’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Ecuador (Béarez 1996), including Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002). Marine, brackish, and fresh waters (Fricke et al. 2020); depth: 0–59 m (192 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). We follow Tavera et al. (2018) in moving Pomadasys macracanthus (Günther, 1864) to the genus Rhencus. 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 163, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008