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Ophichthus zophochir Jordan & Gilbert 1882
Description
Ophichthus zophochir Jordan & Gilbert, 1882.
Yellow Snake Eel. To 98 cm (38.6 in) TL (Amezcua Linares 1996). Humboldt Bay, northern California (Miller and Lea 1972) to Arica, northern Chile (Sielfeld et al. 2010), including Gulf of California (McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995). Benthic; depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to 110 m (361 ft) (min.: Miller and Lea 1972; max.: McCosker and Rosenblatt 1998).
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
- Ophichthus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Jordan & Gilbert
- Species
- zophochir
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ophichthus zophochir Jordan, 1882 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Amezcua Linares, F. (1996) Peces Demersales de la Platforma Continental del Pacifico Central de Mexico. Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologica, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Sielfeld, W., Laudien, J., Vargas, M. & Villegas, M. (2010) El Nino induced changes of the coastal fish fauna off northern Chile and implications for ichthyogeography. Revista de Biologia Marina Oceanografia, 45, S 1, 705 - 722. https: // doi. org / 10.4067 / s 0718 - 19572010000400014
- 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.
- 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.