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Bajacalifornia burragei Townsend & Nichols 1925

Description

Bajacalifornia burragei Townsend & Nichols, 1925.

Sharpchin Slickhead. To 19.8 cm (7.8 in) SL (Childress et al. 1980). Indo-Pacific (Fricke et al. 2020); western Pacific Ocean north to Taiwan (Yeh et al. 2006); northern California (40°N) (Bradburn et al. 2011) to Chile (23°51’S, 71°01’W) (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Ambrose in Moser 1996), and questionably off Peru (Markle and Krefft 1985). Depth: 128– 3,476 m (420–11,400 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California).

Notes

Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Townsend, C. H. & Nichols, J. T. (1925) Deep sea fishes of the Albatross Lower California expedition. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 52, 1 - 21.
  • Childress, J. J., Taylor, S. M., Cailliet, G. M. & Price, H. M. (1980) Patterns of growth, energy utilization and reproduction in some meso- and bathypelagic fishes off southern California. Marine Biology, 61, 27 - 40.
  • Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & van der Laan, R. (Eds). 2020. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, Reference. Available from: http: // researcharchive. calacademy. org / research / ichthyology / catalog / fishcatmain. asp (accessed 17 April 2021).
  • Yeh, H. - M, Lee, M. - Y. & Shao, K. - T. (2006) Ten Taiwanese new records of alepocephalid fishes (Pisces: Alepocephalidae) collected from the deep waters by the RV ' Ocean Researcher 1 '. Journal of the Fish Society of Taiwan, 33, 265 - 279.
  • Bradburn, M. J., Keller, A. A. & Horness, B. H. (2011) The 2003 to 2008 U. S. West Coast bottom trawl surveys of groundfish resources off Washington, Oregon, and California: estimates of distribution, abundance, length, and age composition. National Marine Fisheries Service Technical Memorandum, NMFS-NWFSC- 114.
  • Chirichigno, F. N. & Velez D, J. (1998) Clave para identificaticar los peces marinos del Peru (segunda edicion, revisada y actualizada). Instituto de Mar de Peru Publicacion Especial.
  • Moser, H. G. (Ed.). (1996) The early stages of fishes in the California Current region. CALCOFI Atlas, No. 33.
  • Markle, D. F. & Krefft, G. (1985) A new species and review of Bajacalifornia (Pisces: Alepocephalidae) with comments on the hook jaw of Narcetes stomias. Copeia, 1985, 345 - 356.