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White snook
Centropomus viridis Lockington, 1877
Also calledHvid snook (dan) · Robalo hocicudo (spa) · Robalo-da-Baja-Califórnia (por) · Róbalo plateado (spa) · robalo bělavý (ces) · robalo plateado (spa)
First described in: Lockington, W. N. (1877). Notes on some California marine fishes with description of a new species. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 1).</em> v. 7: 83-88, 108-110.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
Centropomus viridis Lockington 1877
Centropomus viridis Lockington 1877 . White Snook; Róbalo Blanco, Róbalo Plateado Vouchers: Not available. Distribution: Eastern Pacific Ocean; from Baja California, Mexico, to northern Peru, including the Galapagos islands; entering estuaries and littoral lagoons and ascending river courses; (Nicaragua) PN (Pacific); 0–6 masl; Per, Dia, Amp. Occurrence and conservation status: Nat; LC (2020), population trend unknown. Literature: Robertson & Allen (2015: 1091; detailed description, including illustrations, and information on distribution, with a map, and ecology) and Angulo (2021: 42; 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: 1091; 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 Baja California, Mexico, to northern Peru, including the Galapagos Islands; entering estuaries and littoral lagoons and ascending river courses; Costa Rica: Te and Tr (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
White Snook. Maximum size not clearly defined, 90 – 120 cm (35.4 – 47.2 in) TL, but perhaps to as much as 150 cm (60 in) TL (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Southern Baja California (26 ° 45 ’ N, 114 ° 15 ’ W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Tumbes, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Bussing in Fischer et al. 1995) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Marine, brackish, and fresh waters (Fricke et al. 2020); depth: to 25 m (82 ft) Robertson and Allen 2002).
Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2369648.