Check List 21(2): 427-432, doi: 10.15560/21.2.427
First records of the Indo-Pacific Platax teira (Forsskål, 1775), Longfin Batfish (Perciformes, Ephippidae), in the Tropical Eastern Pacific
Pedro Medina-Rosas‡, Jesús A. Moreno-López§‡ Universidad de Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico§ Parque Nacional Islas Marietas, Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Corresponding author: Pedro Medina-Rosas ( pedromedinarosas@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Zeehan Jaafar © Pedro Medina-Rosas, Jesús A. Moreno-López. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Medina-Rosas P, Moreno-López JA (2025) First records of the Indo-Pacific Platax teira (Forsskål, 1775), Longfin Batfish (Perciformes, Ephippidae), in the Tropical Eastern Pacific. Check List 21(2): 427-432. 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.
Keywords
New record, marine, Gulf of California, México, North America