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Giant damselfish
Microspathodon dorsalis (Gill, 1862)
Also calledAyanque (spa) · Castañuela gigante (spa) · Damigella gigante (ita) · Damisel·la gegant (cat) · Donzela-gigante (por) · Posonga (spa) · Riesenriffbarsch (deu) · damisela dominó (spa) · jaqueta gigante (spa) · sapín velký (ces)
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
Giant Damselfish. To 37.8 cm (14.9 in) TL (John Snow, pers. comm. to M. L.). Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (Grove and Lavenberg 1997) and central Gulf of California to Ecuador (Béarez 1996), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997) and many other offshore islands (Robertson and Allen 2002). Depth: intertidal to 25 m (83 ft) (min.: Weaver 1970; max.: Robertson and Allen 2002).
Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Where it has been recorded
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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Every page naming Microspathodon dorsalis in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2398756.