Published October 19, 2021
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Xiphister atropurpureus
Description
Xiphister atropurpureus (Kittlitz, 1858).
Black Prickleback. To 32.3 cm (12.7 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Kodiak Island, Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to near Isla San Martín (30°26’N, 116°07’W), northern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 27 m (90 ft) (min.: Miller and Lea 1972; max.: Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington).
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 189, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Stichaeidae
- Genus
- Xiphister
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Kittlitz
- Species
- atropurpureus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Xiphister atropurpureus (Kittlitz, 1858) 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.