Published October 19, 2021
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Gobiesox maeandricus
Description
Gobiesox maeandricus (Girard, 1858).
Northern Clingfish. To 16.5 cm (6.5 in) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Noyes Island, south-eastern Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to central Baja California (between Isla Guadalupe and mainland on drifting kelp) (Miller and Lea 1972). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 18 m (59 ft) (min.: Miller and Lea 1972; max.: Cross 1981). DFO reports one bottom trawl record from northern Hecate Strait in 2005 at 140 m (459 ft). However, there is no voucher specimen.
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 201, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Gobiesocidae
- Genus
- Gobiesox
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Gobiesociformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Girard
- Species
- maeandricus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gobiesox maeandricus (Girard, 1858) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- 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.
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.