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

By

Bensted-Smith, William
Terán, Franklin
Banks, Stuart
Keith, Inti

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2025-4-28

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

21

Series / Issue

Issue: 2

Pages

485--505

Subjects

Eastern Pacific Barrier , ENSO , marine reserve , rafting , reef-fish , Vagrant

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/21.2.485

 

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).