Distributional and Ecological Notes on the Halfbeaks of Eastern Gulf of Mexico, with a Provisional Key for Their Identifification
Several fishes of the halfbeak genus Hyporhamphus occumng in the Mexican Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea have been misidentified or confused in the literature. Most of it has centered around the taxonomic status of H. unifasciatus (including its synonym H. roberti), which is shown to comprise a c...
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| author | Contreras Balderas, Salvador Lozano Vilano, María de Lourdes García Ramírez, María Elena |
| author_facet | Contreras Balderas, Salvador Lozano Vilano, María de Lourdes García Ramírez, María Elena |
| author_sort | Contreras Balderas, Salvador |
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| description | Several fishes of the halfbeak genus Hyporhamphus occumng in the Mexican Gulf of Mexico
and Caribbean Sea have been misidentified or confused in the literature. Most of it has centered around the
taxonomic status of H. unifasciatus (including its synonym H. roberti), which is shown to comprise a complex
of three species, H. unifasciatus, the recently described H. meeki, from the western Atlantic region, and an
undescribed species from the eastern Pacific Ocean. Another eastern Mexico halfbeak is the freshwater form
H. mexicanus. Using Banford and Collette (1993), we examined specimens from collections at UANL,
UNAM, IPN, and ECOCH and have clarified the Mexican distribution of these species. We here report
additional Mexican records of H. meeki, previously known only from United States waters and from the coast
of Yucathn, clarify the distribution of H. unifasciatus, and provide the first marine record of the freshwater
species H. mexicanus. A distribution map and keys for identification of the eastern Mexican species are
provided. |
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| spelling | eprints-256772023-07-02T00:08:20Z http://eprints.uanl.mx/25677/ Distributional and Ecological Notes on the Halfbeaks of Eastern Gulf of Mexico, with a Provisional Key for Their Identifification Contreras Balderas, Salvador Lozano Vilano, María de Lourdes García Ramírez, María Elena QH Historia Natural, Biología Several fishes of the halfbeak genus Hyporhamphus occumng in the Mexican Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea have been misidentified or confused in the literature. Most of it has centered around the taxonomic status of H. unifasciatus (including its synonym H. roberti), which is shown to comprise a complex of three species, H. unifasciatus, the recently described H. meeki, from the western Atlantic region, and an undescribed species from the eastern Pacific Ocean. Another eastern Mexico halfbeak is the freshwater form H. mexicanus. Using Banford and Collette (1993), we examined specimens from collections at UANL, UNAM, IPN, and ECOCH and have clarified the Mexican distribution of these species. We here report additional Mexican records of H. meeki, previously known only from United States waters and from the coast of Yucathn, clarify the distribution of H. unifasciatus, and provide the first marine record of the freshwater species H. mexicanus. A distribution map and keys for identification of the eastern Mexican species are provided. 1997-01 Article PeerReviewed text en cc_by_nc_nd http://eprints.uanl.mx/25677/1/250.pdf http://eprints.uanl.mx/25677/1.haspreviewThumbnailVersion/250.pdf Contreras Balderas, Salvador y Lozano Vilano, María de Lourdes y García Ramírez, María Elena (1997) Distributional and Ecological Notes on the Halfbeaks of Eastern Gulf of Mexico, with a Provisional Key for Their Identifification. Gulf and Caribbean Research, 9 (4). pp. 327-331. https://aquila.usm.edu/gcr/ |
| spellingShingle | QH Historia Natural, Biología Contreras Balderas, Salvador Lozano Vilano, María de Lourdes García Ramírez, María Elena Distributional and Ecological Notes on the Halfbeaks of Eastern Gulf of Mexico, with a Provisional Key for Their Identifification |
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| title | Distributional and Ecological Notes on the Halfbeaks of Eastern Gulf of Mexico, with a Provisional Key for Their Identifification |
| title_full | Distributional and Ecological Notes on the Halfbeaks of Eastern Gulf of Mexico, with a Provisional Key for Their Identifification |
| title_fullStr | Distributional and Ecological Notes on the Halfbeaks of Eastern Gulf of Mexico, with a Provisional Key for Their Identifification |
| title_full_unstemmed | Distributional and Ecological Notes on the Halfbeaks of Eastern Gulf of Mexico, with a Provisional Key for Their Identifification |
| title_short | Distributional and Ecological Notes on the Halfbeaks of Eastern Gulf of Mexico, with a Provisional Key for Their Identifification |
| title_sort | distributional and ecological notes on the halfbeaks of eastern gulf of mexico with a provisional key for their identifification |
| topic | QH Historia Natural, Biología |
| url | http://eprints.uanl.mx/25677/1/250.pdf |
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