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Chaenopsis alepidota
Description
Chaenopsis alepidota (Gilbert, 1890).
Orangethroat Pikeblenny. To 15.2 cm (6 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Pelican Harbor, Santa Cruz Island, southern California (Kushner et al. 2001) to Gulf of California (Thomson et al. 1979). The only known mainland population in southern California is in King Harbor, southern California (Stephens et al. 1989). A record from Point Sur, central California (Love and Passarelli 2020) is in error. Depth: intertidal to at least 27 m (90 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California).
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 199, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Chaenopsidae
- Genus
- Chaenopsis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gilbert
- Species
- alepidota
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chaenopsis alepidota (Gilbert, 1890) 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.
- Kushner, D. J., Lerma, D., Shaffer, J. & Hajduczek, B. (2001) Kelp forest monitoring 1999 annual report. National Park Service, Channel Islands National Park, Technical Report, CHIS- 01 - 05.
- Thomson, D. A., Findley, L. T. & Kerstitch, A. N. (1979) Reef Fishes of the Sea of Cortez. John Wiley and Sons, New York.
- Stephens, J. S. Jr., Singer, M. & Targgart, T. (1989) Notes on the first record of the orangethroat pikeblenny, Chaenopsis alepidota (Gilbert), in mainland California. California Fish and Game, 75, 180 - 183.
- Love, M. S. & Passarelli, J. K. (2020) Miller and Lea's Guide to the Coastal Marine Fishes of California. Second Edition. University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, Publication 3556.