Bumphead damselfish
Microspathodon bairdii (Gill, 1862)
Also calledAyanque (spa) · Damigella di Baird (ita) · Damigella equatoriale (ita) · Damisela cabeza chichón (spa) · Damisel·la equatorial (cat) · Donzela-de-Baird (por) · jaqueta vistosa (spa)
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description
Bumphead Damselfish or Sheephead Mickey. To 31 cm (12.1 in) TL (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Los Cerritos (23 ° 20 ’ N), southern Baja California (Ruiz-Campos 2010 b) to Ecuador (Thomson et al. 2000), including Gulf of California (Schneider and Krupp in Fischer et al. 1995), Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997), and many other offshore islands (Robertson and Allen 2002). Depth: intertidal to 20 m (66 ft) (min.: Castellanos-Galindo et al. 2005; max.: Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California).
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2398747.