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Myrichthys tigrinus Girard 1859

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Description

Myrichthys tigrinus Girard, 1859.

Spotted Snake Eel or Tiger Snake Eel. To 74 cm (29.1 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2015). Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (Charter in Moser 1996) to Callao, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995), Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997), and Isla del Cocos (Robertson and Allen 2002). Benthic; depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to 60 m (197 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; 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 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FFB2FF9698EAFCB0F8833430

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF87FFAEFF91FFB5987DFFF2FA413005 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 (URL)
Is source of
https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03BE87D6FFB2FF9698EAFCB0F8833430 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/191882344 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/2792/taxon/03BE87D6FFB2FF9698EAFCB0F8833430.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Ophichthidae
Genus
Myrichthys
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Anguilliformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Girard
Species
tigrinus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Myrichthys tigrinus Girard, 1859 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021

References

  • Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages
  • Moser, H. G. (Ed.). (1996) The early stages of fishes in the California Current region. CALCOFI Atlas, No. 33.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.