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Strongylura exilis
Description
Strongylura exilis (Girard, 1854).
California Needlefish or Pike Needlefish. To 91.4 cm (3 ft) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). San Francisco, northern California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) to northern Chile (Sielfeld 2010), including Islas Galápagos (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) and Gulf of California (Collette in Fischer et al. 1995). Marine, brackish, and fresh waters (Fricke et al. 2020); depth: surface (nightlight; 47-158), intertidal to 100 m (328 ft) (min.: Allen 1999; max.: Amezcua Linares 1996).
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 96, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Belonidae
- Genus
- Strongylura
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Beloniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Girard
- Species
- exilis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Strongylura exilis (Girard, 1854) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- 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.
- Sielfeld, W., Laudien, J., Vargas, M. & Villegas, M. (2010) El Nino induced changes of the coastal fish fauna off northern Chile and implications for ichthyogeography. Revista de Biologia Marina Oceanografia, 45, S 1, 705 - 722. https: // doi. org / 10.4067 / s 0718 - 19572010000400014
- 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.
- 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).
- Allen, L. G. (1999) Fisheries Inventory and Utilization of San Diego Bay, San Diego, California. Final report, sampling periods July 1994 to April 1999. Prepared for the United States Navy, Department of Defense, Agreement N 68711 - 94 - LT- 4033.
- 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.