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Microdesmus dorsipunctatus Dawson 1968
Description
Microdesmus dorsipunctatus Dawson, 1968.
Black-spotted Worm Goby or Spotback Wormfish. To 12.5 cm (4.9 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Bahía Almejas, southern Baja California (24°22’N, 111°42’W) (Personal communication:Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) and Gulf of California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Panama (Dawson 1968). Benthic; marine, brackish, and fresh waters (Fricke et al. 2020); depth: intertidal to 10 m (33 ft) (min.: Dawson 1968; max.: Robertson and Allen 2002).
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 207, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Microdesmidae
- Genus
- Microdesmus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Dawson
- Species
- dorsipunctatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Microdesmus dorsipunctatus Dawson, 1968 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Dawson, C. E. (1968) Eastern Pacific wormfishes, Microdesmus dipus Gunther and Microdesmus dorsipunctatus sp. nov. Copeia, 1968, 512 - 531.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & van der Laan, R. (Eds). 2020. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, Reference. Available from: http: // researcharchive. calacademy. org / research / ichthyology / catalog / fishcatmain. asp (accessed 17 April 2021).