Keywords
Tropical Eastern Pacific
color pattern
xanthism.
peces de arrecife
Pacífico Oriental Tropical
patrón de coloración
xantismo.
How to Cite
Abstract
Coloration patterns of reef fishes are an important trait for mediating intra and interspecific interactions, as well as for taxonomic identifications. Here we report a specimen of Stegastes arcifrons that presented a previously unobserved and anomalous color variation on a coral reef at Isla del Coco, Pacific Costa Rica. This color variation is known as xanthism and has been reported in some damselfishes, usually associated with genetic anomally.
References
Allen, G., & Woods, L. (1980). A review of the damselfish genus Stegastes from the Eastern Pacific with the descriptions of a new species. Records of the Western Australia Museum, 8(2), 171-198.
Alvarado, J. J., Beita-Jiménez, A., Mena, S., Fernández-García, F., Guzmán, A. G., & Cortés, J. (2016). Ecosistemas coralinos del Área de Conservación Marina Isla del Coco, Costa Rica: análisis estructural y temporal. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 64(Supplement 1), 153-175.
Cortes, J. (Ed.) (2012). Investigaciones marinas en el Parque Nacional Isla del Coco, Costa Rica. Revista de Biología Tropical, 60(Supplement 3), 1-392.
Friedlander, A. M., Zgliczynski, B. J., Ballesteros, E., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Bolaños, A., & Sala, E. (2012). The shallow-water fish assemblage of Isla del Coco National Park, Costa Rica: structure and patterns in an isolated, predator-dominated ecosystem. Revista de Biología Tropical, 60(Suplement 3), 321-338.
Leclercq, E., Taylor, J. F., & Migaud, H. (2010). Morphological skin colour changes in teleosts. Fish and Fisheries, 11(2), 159-193.
Luiz-Júnior, O. (2003). Colour morphs in a Queen Angelfish Holacanthus ciliaris (Perciformes: Pomacanthidae) population of St. Paul’s Rocks, NE Brazil. Tropical Fish Hobbyist, 51(5), 82-90.
Palacios-Salgado, D. S. & Rojas-Herrera, G. A. (2012). Partial xanthism in a specimen of Acapulco major, Stegastes acapulcoensis (Teleostei: Pomacentridae), from the Tropical Eastern Pacific. Pan-American Journal of Aquatic Sciences, 7(3), 175-177.
Robertson, D.R. & Allen, G.R. (2008). Shorefishes of the tropical Eastern Pacific online information system. Retrived from www.stri.org/sftep
Siebeck, U. E., Wallis, G. M., & Litherland, L. (2008). Colour vision in coral reef fish. Journal of Experimental Biology, 211(3), 354-360.
Souza, A. T., Ilarri, M. I., Medeiros, P. R., Sampaio, C. L. S., & Floeter, S. R. (2011). Unusual colour patterns of territorial damselfish (Pomacentridae: Stegastes) in the south-western Atlantic. Marine Biodiversity Records, 4, e101. doi: 10.1017/S1755267211001035.
Comments
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Copyright (c) 2016 Revista de Biología Tropical