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Paralichthys californicus
Description
Paralichthys californicus (Ayres, 1859).
California Halibut. To 152 cm (5 ft) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Quillayute River, northern Washington (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) to Cabo Falsa (22°50’N), southern Baja California (Martinez Muñoz and Ramírez-Cruz 1992). Also reported from upper Gulf of California near Sonora (Grijalva-Chon et al. 1996), but without documentation. Marine and brackish waters (Hensley in Fischer et al. 1995). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 317 m (1,040 ft) (min.: Carlisle et al. 1960; max.: Bradburn et al. 2011).
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 217, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Paralichthyidae
- Genus
- Paralichthys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Pleuronectiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Ayres
- Species
- californicus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Paralichthys californicus (Ayres, 1859) 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.
- Grijalva-Chon, J. M., Nunez-Quevedo, S. & Castro-Longuria, R. (1996) Ichthyofauna of La Cruz coastal lagoon, Sonora, Mexico. Ciencias Marinas, 22, 129 - 150.
- Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.
- Carlisle, J. G. Jr., Schott, J. W. & Abramson, N. J. (1960) The barred surfperch (Amphistichus argenteus Agassiz) in southern California. California Department of Fish and Game, Fish Bulletin, 109.
- Bradburn, M. J., Keller, A. A. & Horness, B. H. (2011) The 2003 to 2008 U. S. West Coast bottom trawl surveys of groundfish resources off Washington, Oregon, and California: estimates of distribution, abundance, length, and age composition. National Marine Fisheries Service Technical Memorandum, NMFS-NWFSC- 114.