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Kyphosus elegans (Cortez sea chub; Cortez chub)

Synonyms: Pimelepterus elegans
Language: French; Mandarin Chinese; Papiamento; Spanish

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Alto Golfo de California y Delta del Rio Colorado Biosphere Reserve VI 2320468 Sonora, Mexico  
Archipelago de Colon Biosphere Reserve 34336011 Galapagos Islands, Ecuador  
Parque Marino Nacional Sistema Arrecifal Veracruzano National Park II 129688 Mexico      

Ecosystems

Prey / Diet

Chthamalus fissus[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Arothron meleagris (Whitespotted pufferfish)1
Pomacanthus zonipectus (Cortez angelfish)1

Consumers

External References

Citations

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♦ 1A test of the Menge-Sutherland model of community organization in a tropical rocky intertidal food web, Bruce A. Menge, Jane Lubchenco, Stephen D. Gaines, Linda R. Ashkenas, Oecologia (Berlin) (1986) 71: 75-89
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0