Golden mojarra

The golden mojarra (Deckertichthys aureolus)[3] is a species of mojarra native to the eastern Pacific Ocean, where it is found from Costa Rica to the northern coast of Peru.This species is important to local peoples as a food fish.[3] This species was first formally described as Gerres aureolus in 1882 by David Starr Jordan (1851-1931) and Charles Henry Gilbert (1859-1928) with the type locality given as the Pacific Ocean at Bahia Matanhen, Nayart in Mexico.[4] The name of this genus honours Gary Dennis Deckert and compounds his surname with the Greek for fish, ichthys.Deckert was the first to recognise that D. aureolus was distinctive and has made a significant contribution to the study of the mojarras.
Conservation statusLeast ConcernIUCN 3.1Scientific classificationEukaryotaAnimaliaChordataActinopterygiiAcanthuriformesGerreidaeBinomial nameD. S. JordanC. H. GilbertSynonymsspeciesmojarraPacific OceanCosta Ricadescribedtype localityDiapterusGerald R. AllenmonotypicIUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesFroese, RainerFishBaseEschmeyer, William N.Catalog of FishesCalifornia Academy of SciencesWikidataiNaturalistOpen Tree of Life