Kyphosus ocyurus ( Jordan & Gilbert, 1882 )

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Kyphosus ocyurus ( Jordan & Gilbert, 1882)

(Common name: Rainbow chub, bluestripe chub, chopa salema)

( Figure 13 , 15 , 16, Table 5, 8–18)

Pimelepterus ocyurus Jordan and Gilbert 1882: p. 327 (type-locality: Panama Bay , Eastern Pacific), holotype: USNM 29395 . Paratypes: BMNH 1903.5.15.55 (1); USNM 29397 (1), 29725 (1, not found in 1980).

Kyphosus ocyurus Jordan 1885a: p. 380 .

Sectator azureus Jordan and Evermann 1903: p. 185 , (type-locality: Hawaii, Oahiu Island), holotype: USNM 50664; Jordan and Evermann 1905: p. 248; Fowler 1928: p. 222 (Hawaii); Randall 1961: p. 357; Tinker 1978: p. 237 (Hawaii); Randall 2005: p. 307; Mundy 2005: p. 412; Randall 2007: p. 272.

Sectator ocyurus Jordan and Evermann 1898: p. 1389 , (type-locality: Hawaii, Heeia, Oahu Island), type: USNM 50664; Gilbert and Starks 1904: p. 116; Meek and Hildebrand 1925: p. 609; Randall 1961: p. 357, fig. 1 (Society Islands); McCosker and Rosenblatt 1975: p. 92 (Malpelo Island); Brooks 1987: p. 49, fig. 1 (Redondo Beach, California); Allen and Robertson 1994: p. 177 (Eastern Pacific); Araga 1984: p. 166, pl. 152-F (Hawaii, California, Galápagos); Rubio 1990: p. 101; Sommer 1995: p. 1200 (Eastern Pacific); Franke and Acero 1996: p. 768; Grove and Lavenberg 1997: p. 431, fig. 243; Chirichigno and Vélez 1998: p. 366 (as S. oxyurus ); Gotshall 1998: p. 48, fig. 102 (California, Panama, Galápagos Island); Randall and Earle 2000: p. 15, fig. 19; Thomson et al. 2001: p. 140; Sakai 2001: p. 3296; Nakabo 2002: p. 957; Myers and Donaldson 2003: p. 627; Nelson et al. 2004: p. 150; Humann and DeLoach 2004: p. 62 (Gulf of California, Panama, Peru); Robertson et al. 2004: p. 563, table 1; Randall 2005: p. 307; Mundy 2005: p. 412; Dominici-Arosemena and Wolff 2006: p. 301, table 5; Lessios and Robertson 2006: p. 2206 (table); Randall 2007: p. 272; McCosker and Rosenblatt 2010: p. 193.

Figures

FIGURE 13. Museum material of Kyphosus hawaiiensis and K. ocyurus, photos by SWK unless specified otherwise, all lengths are in mm SL, scale bars equal 10 mm: A) Kyphosus hawaiiensis, BPBM 4048, 277 mm, holotype, B) Kyphosus hawaiiensis, BMNH 1883.12.15.43, 348 mm, paratype, C) Kyphosus ocyurus, BMNH 1903.5.15.55, 284 mm, paratype of Sectator ocyurus, D) Kyphosus ocyurus, USNM 29395, 282 mm, holotype of Sectator ocyurus (photo by Sandra J. Raredon, Smithsonian Institution).

FIGURE 15. Underwater photographs of two species of Kyphosus, photos by KDC unless specified otherwise: A) Kyphosus vaigiensis, at Piñas Perlas, Panama, November 2011, B) Kyphosus vaigiensis, at Tulumben, Bali, September 2009, C) Kyphosus vaigiensis, Tulum, Mexico, August 2011 (photo by SWK), D) Kyphosus vaigiensis, at Piñas Perlas, Panama, November 2011, E) Kyphosus ocyurus, at Pinas Perlas, November 2011, F) school of Kyphosus ocyurus, at Piñas Perlas, November 2011.