Black Snook

Centropomus nigrescens Gunther 1864

Centropomus nigrescens Günther 1864 . Black Snook; Róbalo Negro, Róbalo Redondo Vouchers: Not available. Distribution: Eastern Pacific Ocean; from southern Baja California and the Gulf of California, Mexico, to northern Peru; entering estuaries and littoral lagoons and ascending river courses; (Nicaragua) Ch, Ne, ER, PN and Ni (Pacific); 0–319 masl; Per, Dia, Amp. Occurrence and conservation status: Nat; LC (2019), population trend unknown. Literature: Villa (1982: 161; detailed description, including illustrations and an identification key, and information on distribution and ecology), Carr & Giovannoli (1994: 106; brief description, including information on distribution and ecology), Robertson & Allen (2015: 1087; detailed description, including illustrations, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology) and Angulo (2021: 41; listed, including information on distribution).

Continental fishes of Nicaragua: diversity, distribution and conservation status; with an annotated and illustrated checklist of species and an identification guide to families

discussion

References: Angulo et al. (2013: 999; listed, including taxonomic information and distributional data) and Robertson & Allen (2015: 1087; detailed description, including illustrations, information on distribution, with a map, and ecology).

New records and range extensions to the Costa Rican freshwater fish fauna, with an updated checklist

distribution

Distribution: Global: Eastern Pacific Ocean; from southern Baja California and the Gulf of California, Mexico, to northern Peru; entering estuaries and littoral lagoons and ascending river courses; Costa Rica: Ni, Te, Be, Ba, Ta, Pi, Tr and Co (Pacific), 0 – 145 m. a. s. l., Per, Dia.

New records and range extensions to the Costa Rican freshwater fish fauna, with an updated checklist

description

Black Snook. To 117 cm (46 in) TL (Bussing in Fischer et al. 1995). Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Paita, Peru (Chirichigno 1974), including lower Gulf of California (Bussing in Fischer et al. 1995). Marine, brackish, and fresh waters (Fricke et al. 2020); depth: to 25 m (82 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002). Centropomus nigrescens Günther, 1864, is an invalid name, as it is preoccupied by C. nigrescens Risso, 1810, a species in the family Moronidae (Eschmeyer 1998).

Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico