New Seventh Edition ofCommon and Scientific Names of FishesChanges include capitalization of common names

摘要

The seventh edition of Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico (Page et al. 2013) continues the effort established by the six earlier editions to standardize the names of North American fishes, thereby improving communication among fisheries biologists, the popular press, and others with an interest in fishes. It provides the accepted common and scientific names for all fishes in the continental United States, Canada, and Mexico, including marine species inhabiting (as juveniles or adults) contiguous shore waters on or above the continental shelf to a bottom depth of 200 m. In the Atlantic Ocean, all shore fishes from Greenland and eastern Canada, the United States, and Mexico, including those from the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea south to the Mexico-Belize border, are included. In the Pacific Ocean, species occurring over the continental shelf from the Bering Strait to the Mexico-Guatemala border, including Guadalupe Island and Revillagigedo Archipelago, are included.