SYSTEMATICS AND BIOLOGY OF THE BONEFISH, ALBULA NEMOPTERA (FOWLER)
1967; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; Volume: 66; Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1937-4518
Autores Tópico(s)Marine and fisheries research
ResumoThis study is a review of the taxonomic status of the bonefish, nemoptera, formerly placed in the genus Dio;. Reasons for synonymizing Dio;,, with are discusSed, and it is shown that is conspecific with nemoptera. The Atlantic and Pacific populations of Prior to 1911 the family Albulidae waf! known from several fossil forms and one living species, vulpes (Linnaeus). Fowler (1911) described the second living species, Dixon.ina nemoptera, from a single specimen from Hispaniola. Eight years later a second specimen was recorded by Metzelaar (1919) from Venezuela and a third, from the Pacific coast of Mexico, by Myers (1936). A drawing of a specimen from the Pacific coast of Mexico identified as Albula vulpes, was published by Kumada and Hiyama (1937). According to Walford (1939), apparently several specimens were available to these authors. Beebe (1942), on the basis of 19 specimens from Costa Rica, proposed the name Dixon-ina pacifica for the Pacific coast population. The third Atlantic record (Rivas, 1952) was based on two speci mens from Jamaica. Recently Caldwell and Caldwell (1964) recorded, tentatively as Albul.a 1'Itlpes, 14 larvae and juveniles from the Atlantic coast of Panama. According to the literature, therefqre, this apparently rare spec.ies of aJ.bulid was hitherto known only from four Atlantic records (7 lar vae, 6 juveniles, and 4 adults) and the three Pacific records (21 specimens of which 14 are not traceable).
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