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Eucryphycus californicus

Description

Eucryphycus californicus (Starks & Mann, 1911).

Persimmon Eelpout.To 25.5 cm (10in)TL (Zuercher et al. 2019). Ascension Canyon, central California (36°55’N, 122°28’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to San Diego, southern California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). In drifting kelp and eelgrass accumulated at bottom of submarine canyons and basins (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983); benthic; depth: 60–545 m (197–1,787 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Southern California Coastal Water Research Project, Westminster, California. Unpublished data from their trawl surveys; max.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983).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 180, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Zuercher, R., Kliever, R. G. & Cailliet, G. M. (2019) Life history of the deep-water persimmon eelpout (Eucryphycus californicus, family: Zoarcidae), and its use of drift vegetation as an ecological subsidy. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 102, 1161 - 1178. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10641 - 019 - 00896 - 1
  • 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.