Kyphosus elegans ( Peters, 1869 )

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Kyphosus elegans ( Peters, 1869)

(Common name: Cortez sea chub)

( Figure 8 , 9 , 11, Table 3, 8–18)

Pimelepterus elegans Peters 1869: p. 707 , (type locality: Central East Pacific, Mazatlan, Mexico), holotype: ZMB-7071; Fowler 1933: p. 207 (erroneously regarded as synonym of K. bigibbus ); Castro-Aguirre 1978: p. 273 (Laguna de Chacahua).

Pimelepterus sandwicensis Sauvage 1880: p. 221 (type-locality: Hawaiian Islands), assumed but unconfirmed holotype: MNHN 0000-9818 (not matching description by Sauvage 1880); Fowler 1933: p. 207 (erroneously regarded as synonym of K. bigibbus ); Bauchot 1963: p. 174.

Kyphosus sandwicensis : (non Sauvage 1880), (non Jordan and Evermann 1905): Randall 2005: p. 305, (non K. elegans ), the photo is of a yellow variant of K. sectatrix ( Linnaeus 1766) ; Sakai and Nakabo 2004: p. 25 (non K. elegans ).

Kyphosus elegans Jordan 1885a: p. 380 (erroneously regarded as synonym of K. analogus ); Bryan and Herre 1903: p. 131 (Marcus Island); Jenkins 1903: p. 453 (Honolulu); Snyder 1904: p. 527 (Laysan Island); Meek and Hildebrand 1925: p. 607, pl. lxiv; Fowler 1933: p. 207 (erroneously regarded as synonym of K. bigibbus ); Thomson et al. 1979: p. 121, fig. 61, pl. 10b, 11 (Californian Gulf to Panama to Galápagos); Lopez and Bussing 1982: p. 19; Robins et al. 1991: p. 120; Allen and Robertson 1994: p. 177; Bussing and López 1994: p. 136 –137; Sommer 1995: p. 1200; Franke and Acero 1996: p. 767; De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997: p. 195 (Baha Magdalena, Ecuador, Sea of Cortez, Galápagos); Grove and Lavenberg 1997: p. 430, fig. 240, 242; Gotshall 1998: p. 47, fig. 103; Castro-Aguirre et al. 1999: p. 390, (Californian Gulf to Panama); Thomson et al. 2001: p. 139, (Californian Gulf to Panama to Galápagos); Humann and DeLoach 2004: p. 60 (Gulf of California to Panama); Nelson et al. 2004: p. 150 (Pacific Mexico); Dominici-Arosemena and Wolff 2006: p. 301, table 5; Cruz-Escalona et al. 2009: p. 55; McCosker and Rosenblatt 2010: p. 193 (Eastern Pacific); Near et al. 2012: p. 390; Near et al. 2013: fig. S1E and S2E.

Figures

FIGURE 8. Museum material of Kyphosus elegans, all photos by SWK, all lengths are in mm SL, scale bars equal 10 mm: A) Kyphosus elegans, ZMB 7071, 258 mm, holotype of Pimelepterus elegans, B) Kyphosus elegans, MNHN 0000-9818, 248 mm, holotype of Pimelepterus sandwicensis.

FIGURE 9. Underwater photographs of three species of Kyphosus, photos by KDC unless specified otherwise: A) Kyphosus cinerascens, September 2009, B) Kyphosus cinerascens, Tulum, Yucatan Peninsula, August 2011 (photo by SWK), C) Kyphosus elegans (spotted phase), near Piñas Perlas, Panama, November 2011, D) Kyphosus elegans (brown phase), near Piñas Perlas, Panama, November 2011, E) Kyphosus gladius, Rockingham, Perth, July 2011, F) Kyphosus gladius, Rottnest Island, Perth, July 2011.