Pompano dolphinfish
Coryphaena equiselis Linnaeus, 1758
Also calledAgama (ewe) · Caméléon (fra) · Corifena minore (ita) · Coryphène dauphin (fra) · Cá Nục Heo (vie) · Delfim (por) · Doirado-amarelo (por) · Doirado-fêmea (por) · Doirado-pampo (por) · Dolpin (tgl) · Dorado (spa) · Dorado Chato (spa) · Dourado-oceânico (por) · Ebisu-shiira (jpn)
First described in: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. <em>Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition], vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae.</em>
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
Pompano Dolphinfish. To 207 cm (83 in) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983), or only to 127 cm (50 in) in (Robertson and Allen 2008). Not always correctly distinguished from Coryphaena hippurus Linnaeus, 1758, and the larger sizes reported likely are from that species. Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Sea of Japan (Parin 2003); 43 Fathom Bank, southern California (about 32 ° 39.3 ’ N, 117 ° 58.3 ’ W) (Walker et al. 2020) to at least Ecuador (Béarez 1996), including south-western Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002). Depth: Surface to 50 m (164 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Robertson and Allen 2008).
Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
vernacular_names
– Pompano dolphinfish; Doirado-pampo ①, Dourado ① ②, Doirado or Doirado-amarelo ②, Dourada or Delfim ③
Updated checklist of marine fishes (Chordata: Craniata) from Portugal and the proposed extension of the Portuguese continental shelf
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2381960.