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Hyperprosopon argenteum Gibbons 1854

Description

Hyperprosopon argenteum Gibbons, 1854.

Walleye Surfperch. To 30.5 cm (12 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Willapa Bay, Washington (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California) to Punta San Rosarito (Miller and Lea 1972), and Isla de Cedros, central Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), including Isla Guadalupe (Miller and Lea 1972). Depth: surface and intertidal to 182 m (597 ft) (min.: Ruiz-Campos et al. 2010b; max.: M.L., unpubl. data). One taken inside the mouth of a stream (24.6 ppt) during tidal inflow (Ruiz-Campos et al. 2000). A record from Vancouver Island is in error (Theodore Pietsch, pers. comm. to M.L.).

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

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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.
  • Ruiz-Campos, G., Gonzalez-Guzman, S., Ramirez-Valdez, A., Gonzalez-Acosta, A. F., Castro-Aguirre, J. L. & de la Cruz- Aguero, J. (2010 b) Composition, density and biogeographic affinities of the rocky intertidal fishes on the western coast of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico. CalCOFI Reports, 51, 210 - 220.
  • Ruiz-Campos, G., Contreras-Balderas, S., Lozano-Vilano, M. L., Gonzalez-Guzman, S. & Alaniz-Garcia, J. (2000) Ecological and distributional status of the continental fishes of northwestern Baja California, Mexico. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 99, 59 - 90.