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Ophichthus triserialis

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Description

Ophichthus triserialis (Kaup, 1856).

Pacific Snake Eel. To 121.5 cm (47.8 in) TL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Off Lincoln City (44°58.6’N, 124°09’W), Oregon (Pickens et al. 2018) to Peru, including Gulf of California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Benthic; depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to 155 m (508 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: McCosker and Rosenblatt 1998). The O. triserialis mentioned as living around the Islas Galápagos in Eschmeyer and Herald (1983) is another, island endemic, species (Love et al. 2005).

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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http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FFB2FF9698EAFAE4F9333628

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)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03BE87D6FFB2FF9698EAFAE4F9333628 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/191882336 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/2792/taxon/03BE87D6FFB2FF9698EAFAE4F9333628.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Ophichthidae
Genus
Ophichthus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Anguilliformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Kaup
Species
triserialis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ophichthus triserialis (Kaup, 1856) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021

References

  • Pickens, F. A. T., Ortega, J. D., Le, A. P. & Konstantinidis, P. (2018) First records of the Pacific snake eel, Ophichthus triserialis, in Oregon waters. Northwestern Naturalist, 99, 239 - 241. https: // doi. org / 10.1898 / nwn 18 - 15.1
  • 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.
  • Grove, J. S. & Lavenberg, R. J. (1997) The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford.
  • McCosker, J. E. & Rosenblatt, R. H. (1998) A revision of the eastern Pacific snake-eel genus Ophichthus (Anguilliformes: Ophichthiidae) with the description of six new species. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 50, 397 - 432.
  • Love, M. S., Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A. & Thorsteinson, L. K. (2005) Resource inventory of marine and estuarine fishes of the West Coast and Alaska: a checklist of North Pacific and Arctic Ocean species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon Border. United States Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Biological Resources Divition, Seattle, OCS Study MMS 2005 - 030 and USGS / NBII 2005 - 001.