New photographic records of eight marine fishes from the Galápagos Islands, including three first records for the Eastern Tropical Pacific

2025/04/28 by William Bensted‐Smith, Franklin Terán, Stuart Banks +1 · 1 voice
Environmental Science · Social Sciences · #Biology #Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies #Fishery #Geography #Geology #Marine animal studies overview #Meteorology #Oceanography #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies #Pacific ocean #Tropical marine climate

paper · pdf · doi:10.15560/21.2.485

openalex publication_date 2025/04/28 · openalex created_date 2025/04/29 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01

Abstract

We provide photographic evidence for eight fish species from five families, not previously seen within the Galápagos Marine Reserve. Four species are native to the Central Tropical Pacific and likely arrived during recent El Niño phenomena: Acanthurus leucocheilus Herre, 1927, Acanthurus olivaceus Bloch & Schneider, 1801, Naso hexacanthus (Bleeker, 1855), and Chaetodon punctatofasciatus Cuvier, 1831. One is a pantropical species: Kyphosus sectatrix (Linnaeus, 1758). The remaining species likely originated within the Eastern Tropical Pacific: Ctenochaetus marginatus (Valenciennes, 1835), Halichoeres malpelo Allen & Robertson, 1992, and Gymnothorax porphyreus (Guichenot, 1848).

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• William Bensted-Smith, Franklin Terán, Stuart Banks, and Inti Keith document eight species—from five families—not previously recorded in the Galapagos Marine Reserve. They likely originated from both [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]

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