Taxonavigation

Familia: Labridae
Genus: Sagittalarva
Species: Sagittalarva inornata

Name

Sagittalarva inornata (Gilbert, 1890)

• Holotype (unique): USNM 44273.

Type locality: Off Baja California, Mexico, 22°52'N, 109°55'W , Albatross station 2829, depth 31 fathoms.

Etymology: The specific epithet is the Latin word for unadorned. It refers probably to the condition of coloration which the author found in the preserved holotype at the time of description with all patterns faded out.

References

• Baldwin, C.C. & J.E. McCosker 2001: Wrasses of the Galápagos Islands, with the description of a new deepwater species of Halichoeres (Perciformes: Labridae). Revista de Biologia Tropical, 49 (Suppl. 1): 89–100.
• Gilbert, C. H.; 1890: A preliminary report on the fishes collected by the steamer Albatross on the Pacific coast of North America during the year 1889, with descriptions of twelve new genera and ninety-two new species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 13 (797): 49–126. BHL

• Parenti, P. & J.E. Randall 2000: An annotated checklist of the species of the Labroid fish families Labridae and Scaridae. Ichthyological Bulletin of the J. L. B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, 68: 1–97.
• Victor, B.C.; Alfaro, M.E.; Sorenson, L. 2013: Rediscovery of Sagittalarva inornata n. gen., n. comb. (Gilbert, 1890) (Perciformes: Labridae), a long-lost deepwater fish from the eastern Pacific Ocean: a case study of a forensic approach to taxonomy using DNA barcoding. Zootaxa 3669(4): 551–570. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3669.4.8 Reference page.