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Chilara taylori
Description
Chilara taylori (Girard, 1858).
Spotted Cusk-eel. To 45.2 cm (17.8 in) TL (Rodríguez-Romero et al. 2008). Bowen Island (49°23’N, 123°24’W), British Columbia (Hanke et al. 2015) to 23°25’N, 110°14’W, southern Baja California (John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.), into Gulf of California, and off Ecuador (Lea and Béarez 1999). Depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to 1,128 m (3,700 ft) (min.: Love et al. 2005; 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 82, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ophidiidae
- Genus
- Chilara
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Ophidiiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Girard
- Species
- taylori
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chilara taylori (Girard, 1858) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Rodriguez-Romero, J., Palacios-Salgado, D. S. & Gutierrez Sanchez, F. J. (2008) First record of the spottail moray Gymnothorax equatorialis (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) off the west coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico. Marine Biodiversity Records, 1, 2 - 4. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / s 1755267207007981
- Hanke, G., Gillespie, G., Fong, K., Boutillier, J., Nielsen, J., Moller, P., Bedard, J. & J. Riley. (2015) New records of seven cusk-eels (Ophidiidae) and brotulas (Bythitidae) in coastal waters of British Columbia, Canada. Northwestern Naturalist, 96, 71 - 80. https: // doi. org / 10.1898 / nwn 14 - 17.1
- Lea, R. N. & Bearez, P. (1999) Occurrence of Chilara taylori (Ophidiidae), an eastern North Pacific cusk-eel from Ecuadorian waters. Cybium, 23, 99 - 100.
- 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.