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Galapagos halosaur
Halosaurus attenuatus Garman, 1899
Also calledTeravsaba-soolasaurus (est) · halosaur štíhlý (ces)
First described in: Garman, S. (1899). The Fishes. <em>In: Reports on an exploration off the west coasts of Mexico, Central and South America, and off the Galapagos Islands ... by the U. S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross," during 1891 ... No. XXVI. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology v. 24: Text: 1-431, Atlas: Pls. 1-85 + A-N.</em>
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description
To 40.6 cm (16 in) TL (Froese and Pauly 2019; note that we were unable to verify this record). Probably circumglobal (Smith in Carpenter and De Angelis 2016); Southern Baja California (Cruz-Acevedo et al. 2018) to Gulf of California to Panama (Robertson et al. 2017); Islas Galápagos; eastern Atlantic (Robertson et al. 2017). Depth: 1,113 – 2,500 m (3,651 – 8,200 ft) (Robertson et al. 2017).
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 2405466.