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Rhinogobiops nicholsii

Description

Rhinogobiops nicholsii (Bean, 1882).

Blackeye Goby. To 15 cm (6 in) TL (Follett 1970). Yakutat, eastern Gulf of Alaska (Personal communication:University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington; confirmed by Katherine Maslenikov) to south of Punta Rompiente, southern Baja California (Miller and Lea 1972), and Isla Guadalupe (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), central Baja California. Benthic; depth: intertidal to at least 195 m (640 ft) (min.: Follett 1970; max.: M.L., unpubl. data).A record of 640 m (2,100 ft) (Barnhart 1936) is without documentation. Classified until recently in the genus Coryphopterus.

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 206, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Follett, W. I. (1970) Benthic fishes cast ashore by giant waves near Point Joe, Monterey County, California. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 37, 473 - 488.
  • Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
  • Barnhart, P. S. (1936) Marine Fishes of Southern California. University of California Press, Berkeley.