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Cynoponticus coniceps
Description
* Cynoponticus coniceps (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882).
Conehead Eel, Conger-head Pike Conger, or Red Pike Conger. To 202 cm (79.5 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Southern tip of Baja California to Peru (Robertson and Allen 2015), including Gulf of California (Ruiz-Campos et al. 1998). Depth: 6–100 m (20–328 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Smith in Fischer et al. 1995).
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 37, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Muraenesocidae
- Genus
- Cynoponticus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Jordan & Gilbert
- Species
- coniceps
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cynoponticus coniceps (Jordan, 1882) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages
- Ruiz-Campos, G., Contreras-Balderas, S. & Lozano-Vilano, M. D. L. (1998) Occurrence of the red pike-conger, Cynoponticus conicep s (Jordan and Gilbert, 1881) (Pisces: Muraenesocidae), in the Gulf of California. California Fish and Game, 84, 146 - 148.
- Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.