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Aulorhynchus flavidus Gill 1861

Description

Aulorhynchus flavidus Gill, 1861.

Tubesnout. To 18.8 cm (7.4 in) TL (Coad 1995). Pavlof Bay, southwest Alaska Peninsula, and Kodiak Island, Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), to Punta Rompiente (27°42’N, 115°W), central Baja California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California). Record from Captains Bay, Unalaska Island, is uncertain (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Depth: surface to at least 40 m (130 ft) (Limbaugh 1962), from shoreline (e.g., beach seine in less than 1 m of water; Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to well offshore (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983).

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

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References

  • Coad, B. W. (1995) Encyclopedia of Canadian Fishes. Canadian Museum of Nature and Canadian Sportfishing Productions Inc., Waterdown.
  • Limbaugh, C. (1962) Life history and ecological notes on the tubenose, Aulorhynchus flavidus, a hemibranch fish of western North America. Copeia, 1962, 549 - 555.
  • 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.