Bigtooth Pomfret
Brama orcini Cuvier, 1831
Also calledMarubarashimagatsuo (jpn) · Xaputa tropical (glg) · pražma velkozubá (ces) · Тропический морской лещ (rus) · マルバラシマガツオ (jpn) · 小鱗烏魴 (zho) · 深海三角仔 (zho) · 黑皮刀 (zho) · 黑飛刀 (zho)
First described in: Cuvier, G.; Valenciennes, A. (1831). Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome septième. Livre septième. Des Squamipennes. Livre huitième. Des poissons à pharyngiens labyrinthiformes. <em>F. G. Levrault, Paris.</em> v. 7: i-xxix + 1-531, Pls. 170-208. [Cuvier authored pp. 1-440, Valenciennes 441-531. i-xxii + 1-399 in Strasbourg edition.].
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
Bigbelly Pomfret or Bigtooth Pomfret. To 35 cm (13.8 in) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Indo-Pacific (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983); western Pacific Ocean north to Ogasawara Islands (Hatooka in Nakabo 2002); Imperial Beach, southern California (Mead 1972) to Mexico (Fricke et al. 2020). The Imperial Beach record was a beached specimen. Depth: surface to 100 m (328 ft) (Smith in Smith and Heemstra 1986).
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