Sphoeroides angusticeps

• 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; Tetraodontiformes; Tetraodontidae; Sphoeroides; Sphoeroides angusticeps; Baja; Milton; Pacific; Romero; Scripps; Yukon; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5609961; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5609961

Sphoeroides angusticeps (Jenyns, 1842). Narrow-headed Puffer. To 25 cm (9.8 in) TL (Fischer et al. 1995). Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (Rodríguez-Romero et al. 2011); Mazatlán, Mexico (FMNH 96387), Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Benthic; depth: at least as shallow as 2 m (6 ft) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to 20 m (66 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2015). Once thought to be endemic to the Islas Galápagos, but apparently found in several places in the tropical and subtropical eastern Pacific. 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 225, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008