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Microgadus proximus
Description
Microgadus proximus (Girard, 1854).
Pacific Tomcod or Tomcod. To 40 cm (15.7 in) TL (DFO). South-eastern Bering Sea, and eastern Aleutian Islands (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Point Sal, central California (Miller and Lea 1972). Demersal, sometimes enters brackish waters; depth: near surface (young fish) (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983), intertidal to 310 m (1,050 ft) (min.: Miller et al. 1980; max.: NWFSC-FRAM).
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 80, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Gadidae
- Genus
- Microgadus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Gadiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Girard
- Species
- proximus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Microgadus proximus (Girard, 1854) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- 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.
- Miller, B. S., Simenstad, C. A., Cross, J. N., Fresh, K. L. & Steinfort, S. N. (1980) Nearshore fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages along the Strait of Juan de Fuca including food habits of the common nearshore fish. Interagency Energy / Environment R and D Program Report. EPA- 600 / 7 - 80 - 027.