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Ichthyapus selachops
Description
* Ichthyapus selachops (Jordan & Gilbert, 1882).
Smiling Sand Eel. To 54 cm (21.3 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Costa Rica to Ecuador (Robertson and Allen 2008) to southern tip of Baja California (McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997) and other offshore islands (Robertson and Allen 2002). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 34 m (110 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ophichthidae
- Genus
- Ichthyapus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Jordan & Gilbert
- Species
- selachops
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ichthyapus selachops (Jordan, 1882) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2008) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 1.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa.
- 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.
- Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.