Odontesthes regia
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| Species: | O. regia
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| Odontesthes regia (Humboldt, 1821)
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Odontesthes regia is a fish belonging to the Atherinopsidae family, commonly referred to in English as Chilean silverside,[1] Peruvian silverside[1] or sea silverside, and in Spanish as pejerrey[1] or pejerrey de mar.[1]
This is an epipelagic species distributed from the north Pacific coast of Peru to the Aysén Region, in Chile.[2] The species has great economic importance as a fresh staple food.[3] Although the family Atherinopsidae includes 104 species (13 genera), only 17 species have been cytogenetically studied to date; cytogenetic studies in this group are still scarce.[4]
References
- ^ a b c d Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2015). "Odontesthes regia" in FishBase. February 2015 version.
- ^ (Dyer, 2000).
- ^ (Froese & Pauly, 2005).
- ^ Carlos Muñoz; Mauro Nirchio; Julio E. Pérez; Ernesto Ron; Claudio Oliveira; Irani A. Ferreira (2006). "Cytogenetic characterization of the silverside fish Odontesthes regia (Humboldt, 1833) (Teleostei: Atheriniformes: Atherinopsidae) from Iquique, Chile". Revista de Biología Marina y Oceanografía. 41 (1): 57–62. doi:10.4067/S0718-19572006000100008.
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