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- Title
First Records of Finescale Triggerfish ( Balistes polylepis) and Louvar ( Luvarus imperialis) in British Columbia, Canada.
- Authors
Brooks, A; Hanke, G; Foote, C; Gillespie, G; Bedard, J
- Abstract
Single specimens of Finescale Triggerfish ( Balistes polylepis) and Louvar ( Luvarus imperialis) were found in British Columbia's coastal waters in 2014. Both B. polylepis and L. imperialis normally are found off southern-most California and Baja California. Although a stray B. polylepis was caught as far north as Metlakatla, Alaska, during the 1982-1983 El Niño event, and L. imperialis is known to stray north along the Washington coastline, these 2 new specimens represent 1st records for British Columbia. Both probably moved north during the warm-water anomaly that has persisted along the North American coast since 2013.
- Subjects
BALISTES; BALISTIDAE; LOUVAR; MARINE fishes; FISH speciation
- Publication
Northwestern Naturalist, 2016, Vol 97, Issue 1, p7
- ISSN
1051-1733
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1898/1051-1733-97.1.7