Range Extensions of the Whitespotted Boxfish, Ostracion meleagris Shaw, 1796, in the East and West Coasts of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico

• Héctor Reyes-Bonilla ^[1] ; Daniela Michel Amador-Díaz González ^[1] ; Arturo Ayala-Bocos ^[2] ; Manuel Olán-González ^[1] ; Arturo Hernández-Velasco ^[3] ; Israel Sánchez-Alcántara ^[1] ; Oscar Trujillo-Millán ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

     Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

     México

     
  2. [2] Ecosistemas y Conservación: Proazul Terrestre A.C., México
  3. [3] Comunidad y Biodiversidad, Sonora, México

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• Localización: Thalassas: An international journal of marine sciences, ISSN 0212-5919, Vol. 35, Nº. 1, 2019, págs. 247-252
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The Whitespotted boxfish Ostracion meleagris Shaw, 1796 is a reef resident distributed along the Indo Pacific, but at the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico, this fish has been reported only in the southern region, with a northern limit at 24.2°N inside the Gulf of California. Here we document the presence of O. meleagris in 17 sites along the central gulf, with an extreme record at Tortuga Island (27.445°N, almost 400 km north of its accepted range), and also in two locations of the western Baja California Peninsula (Alijos Rocks and Puerto San Carlos, at 24°N). These findings represent more examples of a recently observed trend in which several species of tropical fish have expanded their distribution range towards the inner Gulf of California and in the Pacific side of the peninsula, as a possible response to the reported warming that occurs in the region.