Belize Biodiversity Information System

   Wildlife Conservation Society

   Ministry of Natural Resources' Land Information Centre

   01/19/98



  NAME -                 Leatherjacket

  FAMILY -               Carangidae
  SCIENTIFIC NAME -      Oligoplites saurus

  SYNONYMS - Scomber saurus- Bloch & Schneider 1801

  REFERENCES - 01

  

                                                              
  

  District                                                     Reference

  Belize                                                               1
  Toledo                                                               1
  

  Administrative Unit                  Occurrence          Temporal    Reference

  Manatee Forest Reserve                Collected as voucher                  1
  Burdon Canal Nature Reserve           Collected as voucher                  1
  Sarstoon Delta Wildlife Sanctuary     Collected as voucher                  1
  

  Hydrologic Association         Reference

  Southern Lagoon                      1
  Coastal                              1
  Temash River                         1
  

  Elevation        Reference

  1-200 m               1
  

  1:50,000 Quadrangle                   Reference

  17 30' to 17 45'; 88 00' to 88 15'           1
  17 15' to 17 30'; 88 00' to 88 10'           1
  17 00' to 17 15'; 88 00' to 88 30'           1
  

  Holdridge Life Zone                   Reference

  Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical     1
  Tropical wet-transition to Subtropical       1
  

  References

  1   Greenfield, D. W., J. E. Thomerson. 1997. Fishes of the Continental
      Waters of Belize.  University of Florida Press.