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Atherinops affinis
Description
Atherinops affinis (Ayres, 1860).
Topsmelt. To 38.8 cm (15.3 in) TL (M.L., unpubl. data). Near Sooke Harbour, Vancouver Island, British Columbia to Gulf of California (Miller and Lea 1972); not in central or southern Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002). Nearshore; marine, brackish, and very occasionally nearly fresh waters (Moyle 2002); depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to 26 m (85 ft) (min: Chotkowski 1994; max.: Limbaugh 1955). A maximum depth record of 63 m (207 ft) (NWFSC-FRAM), from a bottom trawl haul, is likely in error and represents a midwater catch on deployment or retrieval.
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 92, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Atherinopsidae
- Genus
- Atherinops
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Atheriniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Ayres
- Species
- affinis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Atherinops affinis (Ayres, 1860) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Moyle, P. B. (2002) Inland Fishes of California. Revised and Expanded. University of California Press, Berkeley.
- Chotkowski, M. A. (1994) The Behavioral Ecology and Population Dynamics of the Intertidal Fishes of the Northeast Pacific. Ph. D. Thesis, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Limbaugh, C. (1955) Fish life in the kelp beds and the effects of kelp harvesting. University of California, Institute of Marine Research, IMR Ref. 55 - 9.