First records of the Indo-Pacific Platax teira (Forsskål, 1775), Longfin Batfish (Perciformes, Ephippidae), in the Tropical Eastern Pacific

By

Medina-Rosas, Pedro
Moreno-López, Jesús A.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2025-4-8

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

21

Series / Issue

Issue: 2

Pages

427--432

Subjects

Gulf of California , marine , Mexico , new record , North America

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/21.2.427

 

Abstract

Platax teira (Forsskål, 1775) is distributed in the Indo‑West Pacific and with records in other regions, such as from Japan, Australia, New Zealand, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Persian Gulf. Several specimens have been recorded alive in the Mexican Pacific waters, in Bahía de Banderas and Cabo Pulmo, at the entrance of the Gulf of California. Its presence could be due to an aquarium release and raises concern about the potential invasiveness of this species in the Tropical Eastern Pacific.