Micrometrus minimus
Description
Micrometrus minimus (Gibbons, 1854).
Dwarf Perch or Dwarf Surfperch. To 16 cm (6.3 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Salt Point, northern California (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California) to Punta Baja (central Baja California) (Ruiz-Campos et al. 2010b), and Isla de Cedros, central Baja California (Miller and Lea 1972). Depth: intertidal to 20 m (66 ft) (min.: Miller and Lea 1972; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). One individual collected from the mouth of a coastal creek at a salinity of 1.1 ppt (Ruiz-Campos et al. 2000). Also anomalously deep captures with bottom trawls reported at 46 m (150 ft) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), and 73 m (240 ft) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Embiotocidae
- Genus
- Micrometrus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gibbons
- Species
- minimus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Micrometrus minimus (Gibbons, 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.
- 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.