Published October 19, 2021 | Version v1
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Hydrolagus colliei

Description

Hydrolagus colliei (Lay & Bennett, 1839).

Spotted Ratfish or Whitespotted Ratfish. Verified to 63 cm (24.8 in) TL (Barnett et al. 2015), possibly to 97 cm (38.2 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Western Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Cabo Blanco (9°26’N, 85°30’W); Costa Rica (Angulo et al. 2014); northern Gulf of California (Hart 1973). Two isolated populations in the Gulf of California: one at Isla Tiburon, the other in the Bahiá de La Paz–Cabo San Lucas region (González-Acosta et al. 1999). Usually near bottom; depth: surface (Clemens and Wilby 1961), intertidal to 1,593 m (5,225 ft) (min.: Cross 1981; max.: Mejía-Mercado et al. 2014).

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 12, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Barnett, L. A. K., Ebert, D. A. & Dagit, D. D. (2015) Hydrolagus colliei. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, eT 60191 A 80678052
  • Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
  • Angulo, A., Lopez, M. I., Bussing, W. A. & Murase, A. (2014) Records of chimaeroid fishes (Holocephali: Chimaeriformes) from the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, with the description of a new species of Chimera (Chimaeridae) from the eastern Pacific Ocean. Zootaxa, 3861, 554 - 574. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3861.6.3
  • Hart, J. L. (1973) Pacific Fishes of Canada. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 180.
  • Gonzalez-Acosta, A. F., De La Cruz-Aguero, J. & Cota-Gomez, V. M. (1999) Extension of geographical distribution and first occurrence of fishes in the northwest of Mexico. Hidrobiologica, 9, 39 - 44.
  • Clemens, W. A. & Wilby, G. V. (1961) Fishes of the Pacific Coast of Canada, Second Edition. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 68.
  • Mejia-Mercado, B. E., Balart-Paez, E., Sosa-Nishizaki, O. & Hinojosa-Corona, A. (2014) Capitulo 6. Registros de especies icticas (Myxini, Chondrichthyes y Actinopterygii). In: Mejia-Mercado, B. E., Hinojosa-Corona, A. & Hendrickx, M. E. (Eds.), Explorando el Mar Profundo del Golfo de California 2008 - 2014. CICESE, pp. 206 - 226.