Myripristis occidentalis

• Interesting Facts
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Description

Habitat

Biome: Marine .

Taxonomy

Similar Species

Members of the genus Myripristis

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 33 species and subspecies in this genus:

M. adusta (Shadowfish Soldierfish) · M. adustus (Shadowfish Soldierfish) · M. amaena (Brick Soldierfish) · M. archiepiscopus (Straighthead Soldierfish) · M. aulacodes (Grey Soldierfish) · M. berndti (Bigscale Soldier) · M. botche (Toothed Crimson Squirrelfish) · M. chryseres (Golden-Finned Squirrelfish) · M. clarionensis (Candil Amarillo) · M. earlei (Earle's Soldierfish) · M. gildi (Clipperton Cardinal Soldierfish) · M. hexagona (Large-Scale Soldierfish) · M. jacobus (Big-Eyed Squirrelfish) · M. japonicus (Brocade Perch) · M. kaianus (Deepwater Soldier) · M. kuntee (Epaulet Soldierfish) · M. leiognathos (Pacific Soldierfish) · M. leiognathus (Panamic Soldierfish) · M. lima (Rough Scale Soldierfish) · M. melanophrys (Bigscale Soldier) · M. murdjan (Big-Eye Soldierfish) · M. phaeopus (Smoothcheeked Soldierfish) · M. pralinia (Smoothcheeked Soldierfish) · M. praslinus (Smoothcheeked Soldierfish) · M. seychellensis (Seychelles Soldier) · M. trachyacron (Roughskull Soldierfish) · M. trachypoma (Big-Eye Soldierfish) · M. violacea (Australian Squirrel-Fish) · M. violaceus (Small-Eyed Squirrelfish) · M. vittata (White-Tipped Soldierfish) · M. vittatus (White-Tipped Soldierfish) · M. woodsi (Whitespot Soldierfish) · M. xanthacra (Yellowtip Soldierfish)

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Further Reading

• American food and game fishes. A popular account of all the species found in America north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture, . by David Starr Jordan...and Barton Warren Evermann...illustrated with colored plates and text drawings, and with photographs from life, by A. Radclyffe Dugmore. Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page & Co., 1908. url p. 265.
• American food and game fishes: A popular account of all the species found in America north of the equator, with keys of ready identification, life histories and methods of capture New York: Doubleday, Page & co., 1902. url p. 265.
• American food and game fishes: a popular account of all the species found in America, north of the equator, with keys for ready identification, life histories and methods of capture, by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann; with photos. from life by A. Radclyffe Dugmore. New York: Doubleday, Page, 1908, c1902. url p. 265.
• California fish and game. [San Francisco, etc.]: State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game. url p. 132, p. 165, p. 235, p. 236.
• Contributions to biology from the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory of the Leland Stanford Jr. University. Stanford University, Calif.: The University, 1895-1904. url p. 210, p. 64.
• Essays in the natural sciences in honor of Captain Allan Hancock, on occasion of his birthday, July 26, 1955. Los AngelesUniversity of Southern California Press[1955] url p. 156, p. 337.
• Fishes of the Crane Pacific expedition, by Albert W. Herre. 21 1936 Chicago, 1936. url p. 12, p. 77.
• Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy, at Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. Cambridge [Mass.]: The Museum, 1876-1940. url p. 167, p. 90.
• Papers from the Hopkins-Stanford Galapagos expedition, 1898-1899. Washington, D.C., The Academy, 1901-1905. url p. 334, p. 354, p. 425.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 8 1885 Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 376, p. 613.
• Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences. Washington, Washington Academy of Sciences. url p. 354.
• Publication. Field Museum of Natural History. Chicago, U.S.A.: The Museum, 1910-1943. url p. 295.
• Report of the Commissioner for. .. / United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Washington: G.P.O., 1874-1905. url p. 338, p. 338, p. 863.
• Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries for the fiscal year. .. with appendixes Washington: G.P.O., 1914- url p. 235.
• Shore fishes of the Revillagigedo, Clipperton, Cocos and Galapagos islands. By Robert Evans Snodgrass and Edmund Heller. Washington, D. C., The Academy, 1905. url p. 354, p. 425.
• The fishes of Panama Bay, by Charles H. Gilbert and Edwin C. Starks. 1904 San Francisco, The Academy, 1904. url p. 210, p. 299, p. 64.
• The marine fishes of Panama. by Seth E. Meek and Samuel F. Hildebrand. 15 1923 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1923 url p. 295.
• The shore fishes / by William C. Kendall and Lewis Radcliffe; with eight plates. 35 1912 Cambridge, U.S.A.: Printed for the Museum, 1912. url p. 167, p. 90.
• Western Atlantic species of the Genus Holocentrus. 37 1955 Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1955. url p. 93, p. 94.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 13, 2007:

• Canadian Museum of Nature, Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection
• Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, Vertebrate specimens
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, MCZ Fish Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 6647232
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14869284
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 679847

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