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Gibbonsia elegans
Description
Gibbonsia elegans (Cooper, 1864).
Spotted Kelpfish. To 16 cm (6.3 in) TL (Miller et al. 2008). San Francisco Bay (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California), northern California to Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California, including Isla Guadalupe (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 56 m (185 ft) (min.: Wells 1986; max.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). The Spotted Kelpfish was mistakenly given the name Gibbonsia evides by Eschmeyer (1998); for explanation see Nelson et al. (2004:243).
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 196, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Clinidae
- Genus
- Gibbonsia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Cooper
- Species
- elegans
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gibbonsia elegans (Cooper, 1864) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Miller, E. F. & Curtis, M. D. (2008) First occurrence of a Pacific crevalle jack, Caranx caninus, north of San Diego, California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 107, 41 - 43. https: // doi. org / 10.3160 / 0038 - 3872 (2008) 107 [41: fooapc] 2.0. co; 2
- 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.
- Wells, A. W. (1986) Aspects of ecology and life history of the woolly sculpin, Clinocottus analis, from southern California. California Fish and Game, 72, 213 - 226.
- Eschmeyer, W. N. (Ed.). (1998) Catalog of Fishes. Volumes 1 and 2. Special Publication No. 1, Center for Biodiversity Research and Information. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.