Check List 15(1): 1-5, doi: 10.15560/15.1.1
The Red-fin Goby, Evorthodus minutus Meek & Hildebrand, 1928: a new record from Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Archipelago
Omar Valencia-Méndez‡, Dave Catania§, Andrés López-Pérez|‡ Doctorado en Ciencias Biológicas y de la Salud, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, San Rafael Atlixco #186, Vicentina, 09340 Ciudad de México, Mexico, Mexico§ Department of 5 Ichthyology, California Academy of Sciences, 55 Music Concourse Drive, 94118 San Francisco, California, California, United States of America| Departamento de Hidrobiología, División CBS, UAM-Iztapalapa. Av. San Rafael Atlixco 186, Col. Vicentina, 09340, AP 55-535, DF, México., Distrito Federal, Mexico
Corresponding author: Andrés López-Pérez ( alopez@xanum.uam.mx ) Academic editor: Hudson Tercio Pinheiro © 2019 Omar Valencia-Méndez, Dave Catania, Andrés López-Pérez. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC0 Public Domain Dedication.
Citation:
Valencia-Méndez O, Catania D, López-Pérez A (2019) The Red-fin Goby, Evorthodus minutus Meek & Hildebrand, 1928: a new record from Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos Archipelago. Check List 15(1): 1-5. https://doi.org/10.15560/15.1.1 |  |
Abstract
The Red-fin Goby, Evorthodus minutus Meek & Hildebrand, 1928, is a coastal brackish species which is commonly distributed from Sinaloa, Mexico to Guayaquil, Ecuador and particularly abundant in mangroves of Central American eastern Pacific. We report a new record of E. minutus collected from the Santa Cruz Island, part of the Galapagos Archipelago. This new record represents a range extension and is allows for a relevant discussion about colonization pathways in the equatorial eastern Pacific of a brackish-water species.
Keywords
Tropical Eastern Pacific, brackish gobies, oceanic island, fish collections, biodiversity