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Herpetoichthys fossatus
Description
* Herpetoichthys fossatus (Myers & Wade, 1941).
Mustachioed Snake Eel. To 55 cm (21.6 in) TL (McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995). Gulf of California, including Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California (McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995), Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Benthic; depth: 5–40 m (15–131 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995).
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 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ophichthidae
- Genus
- Herpetoichthys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Myers & Wade
- Species
- fossatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Herpetoichthys fossatus (Myers, 1941) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- 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.
- Chirichigno, F. N. & Velez D, J. (1998) Clave para identificaticar los peces marinos del Peru (segunda edicion, revisada y actualizada). Instituto de Mar de Peru Publicacion Especial.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.