Published October 19, 2021
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Spirinchus starksi
Description
Spirinchus starksi (Fisk, 1913).
Night Smelt. To 23 cm (9 in) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Shelikof Bay, southeastern Gulf of Alaska (McAllister 1963, Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to southern California (34°N) (Bradburn et al. 2011). Depth: intertidal, surface to 128 m (422 ft) (Coad 1995); a record from 594 m (1,948 ft) (Bradburn et al. 2011) was from a trawl survey and may represent a midwater capture or a fish left in the net from a shallower tow.
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 52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Osmeridae
- Genus
- Spirinchus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Osmeriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Fisk
- Species
- starksi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Spirinchus starksi (Fisk, 1913) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
- McAllister, D. E. (1963) A revision of the smelt family, Osmeridae. Bulletin of the National Museum of Canada, 191.
- Bradburn, M. J., Keller, A. A. & Horness, B. H. (2011) The 2003 to 2008 U. S. West Coast bottom trawl surveys of groundfish resources off Washington, Oregon, and California: estimates of distribution, abundance, length, and age composition. National Marine Fisheries Service Technical Memorandum, NMFS-NWFSC- 114.
- Coad, B. W. (1995) Encyclopedia of Canadian Fishes. Canadian Museum of Nature and Canadian Sportfishing Productions Inc., Waterdown.