Published October 19, 2021 | Version v1
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Opisthonema libertate

Description

Opisthonema libertate (Günther, 1867).

Deepbody Thread Herring or Pacific Thread Herring. To about 30 cm (11.8 in) TL (Amezcua Linares 1996). Port Hueneme, southern California (Lea and Rosenblatt 2000) to Chile (Pequeño 1l989), including Gulf of California (Whitehead and Rodríguez-Sánchez in Fischer et al. 1995) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Marine and brackish waters (Fricke et al. 2020); depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to at least 70 m (3–230 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Velasco and Thiel 2002).

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

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References

  • Amezcua Linares, F. (1996) Peces Demersales de la Platforma Continental del Pacifico Central de Mexico. Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
  • Lea, R. N. & Rosenblatt, R. H. (2000) Observations on fishes associated with the 1997 - 98 El Nino off California. CalCOFI Reports, 41, 117 - 129.
  • 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.
  • Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
  • 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).
  • Velasco, A. & Thiel, R. (2002) A bilingual field manual for the identification of juvenile fish over soft bottom off the Pacific Coast of Colombia a review from literature. Archive of Fishery and Marine Research, 50, 55 - 118.