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Gillichthys mirabilis Cooper 1864

Description

Gillichthys mirabilis Cooper, 1864.

Longjaw Mudsucker. To 21 cm (8.3 in) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Tomales Bay, northern California to Gulf of California (Miller and Lea 1972). Benthic; shallow waters of bays and mudflats (Miller and Lea 1972); depth: to at least 5 m (15 ft) (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 205, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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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.