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Scytalichthys miurus
Description
Scytalichthys miurus (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882).
Shorttail Viper Eel. To 97 cm (38.8 in) SL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Isla Guadalupe, central Baja California and southern tip of Baja California (McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995) to Panama (Robertson and Allen 2002), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997) and Isla del Cocos (Robertson and Allen 2002). Benthic; depth: 10–85 m (33–279 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: McCosker and Rosenblatt 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
- Ophichthidae
- Genus
- Scytalichthys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Jordan & Gilbert
- Species
- miurus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Scytalichthys miurus (Jordan, 1882) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- 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.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.