Megalops atlanticus Valenciennes, 1847
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5083.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818186 |
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Megalops atlanticus Valenciennes, 1847 |
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Megalops atlanticus Valenciennes, 1847 View in CoL .
Tarpon, Atlantic Tarpon; Sábalo, Sábalo Real, Tarpón, Tarpón del Atlántico.
Distribution: Global: Atlantic and Eastern Pacific Oceans; from southern Nova Scotia, Canada, to southern Brazil in the western Atlantic, from southern France to Angola in the eastern Atlantic and from southern Guatemala to southern Colombia in the Eastern Pacific; entering estuaries and littoral lagoons and ascending river courses; Costa Rica: LN, RF, SJ, SC, Sa, To (Atlantic), Te, Be and Tr (Pacific), 0– 45 m.a.s.l., Per, Dia.
Occurrence and conservation status: Nat, VU.
References: Bussing (1966: 236; listed, information on distribution), Bussing (1987: 62; 1998: 61; brief description, including illustrations and an identification key, information on distribution, with a map, and ecology), Angulo et al. (2013: 989; listed, including taxonomic information and distributional data), Robertson & Allen (2015: 2522; detailed description, including illustrations, information on distribution, with a map, and ecology), Robertson & Van Tassell (2019: 2522; detailed description, including illustrations, information on distribution, with a map, and ecology) and Castellanos-Galindo et al. (2019: 401; information on distribution, with a map, and ecology).
Castellanos-Galindo, G. A., Robertson, D. R., Pacheco-Chaves, B., Angulo, A. & Chong-Montenegro, C. (2019) Atlantic Tarpon in the Tropical Eastern Pacific 80 years after it first crossed the Panama Canal. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries, 29 (2), 401 - 416. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 11160 - 019 - 09565 - z
Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: online information system. Version 2.0. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama. Available from: https: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages (accessed 27 August 2021).
Robertson, D. R. & Van Tassell, J. (2019) Shorefishes of the Greater Caribbean: online information system. Version 2.0 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama. Available from: https: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / caribbean / en / pages (accessed 27 August 2021).
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