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Elassodiscus caudatus

Description

Elassodiscus caudatus (Gilbert, 1915).

Humpback Snailfish. To 23 cm (9.1 in) SL, 26.2 cm (10.3 in) TL (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington). Southeast Alaska, off Juneau (Stein 1978), British Columbia (Peden 2003) to southern California (33°55’N)) (NWFSC-FRAM). Depth: 241–1,077 m (791–3,533 ft) (min.: Anderson et al. 1979; max.: NWFSC-FRAM). Classified by some authors in Paraliparis.

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

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References

  • Gilbert, C. H. (1915) Fishes collected by the United States steamer " Albatross " in southern California in 1904. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 48, 305 - 380.
  • Stein, D. L. (1978) A review of the deepwater Liparidae (Pisces) from the coast of Oregon and adjacent waters. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, No. 127.
  • Peden, A. E. (2003) Marine fishes. In: The Vertebrates of British Columbia: Scientific and English names. Changes Since Version 3.0. Standards for Components of British Columbia's Biodiverity No. 2. Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management, Resources Inventory Committee, British Columbia, Canada, pp. 4 - 7.
  • Anderson, M. E., Cailliet, G. M. & Antrim, B. S. (1979) Notes on some uncommon deep-sea fishes from the Monterey Bay area, California. California Fish and Game, 65, 256 - 264.