Pholis ornata
Description
Pholis ornata (Girard, 1854).
Saddleback Gunnel. To 30.5 cm (12 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Vancouver Island, southern British Columbia (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) to Point Loma, southern California (Kevin Lee, pers. comm. to M.L.). Peden and Hughes (1984) demonstrated that records of P. ornata from Alaska were misidentified P. laeta. Consequently, we must view recent reports of occurrence in Alaska with scepticism, especially since those specimens were not retained for verification. Benthic; depth: intertidal to 60 m (198 ft) (Love et al. 2005). Reports of P. ornata from Hokkaido (e.g., Hatooka in Nakabo 2002), the Sea of Japan, and Korean Peninsula are probably the western Pacific species Pholis nea (Peden and Hughes 1984) or these forms are conspecific or subspecies (Mecklenburg 2003). A “ Pholis ornata ” from the Gulf of Alaska (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington, UW 005206) is a Pholis laeta (Cope, 1873) (Katherine Maslenikov).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Pholidae
- Genus
- Pholis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Girard
- Species
- ornata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pholis ornata (Girard, 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.
- 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.
- Peden, A. E. & Hughes, G. W. (1984) Distribution, morphological variation, and systematic relationship of Pholis laeta and P. ornata (Pisces: Pholididae) with a description of the related form P. nea n. sp. Canadian Journal of Zoology, 62, 291 - 305.
- Love, M. S., Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A. & Thorsteinson, L. K. (2005) Resource inventory of marine and estuarine fishes of the West Coast and Alaska: a checklist of North Pacific and Arctic Ocean species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon Border. United States Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Biological Resources Divition, Seattle, OCS Study MMS 2005 - 030 and USGS / NBII 2005 - 001.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Mecklenburg, C. W. (2003) Family Anoplopomatidae Jordan & Gilbert 1883 - sablefishes. California Academy of Sciences, Annotated Checklists of Fishes, No. 2.