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Lepophidium microlepis
Description
Lepophidium microlepis (Gilbert, 1890).
Finescale Cusk-eel or Silver Cusk-eel.To 50.6 cm (19.9 in) TL (Rodríguez-Romero et al. 2008). Islas de Cedros, central Baja California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California) to Gulf of California (Lea in Fischer et al. 1995). Depth: 16–350 m (53–1,148 ft) (min.: Nakaya et al. 2009; max.: Jiménez Prado and Béarez 2004). The “ Lepophidium microlepis ” of Chirichigno and Vélez (1998), from Paita, Peru, refers to Lepodophidium inca Robins & Lea, 1978.
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
- Lepophidium
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Ophidiiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gilbert
- Species
- microlepis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lepophidium microlepis (Gilbert, 1890) 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
- 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.
- Nakaya, K., Yabe, M., Imamura, H., Romero Camarena, M. & Yoshida, M. (Eds.). (2009) Deep-sea Fishes of Peru. Japan Deep Sea Trawlers Assciated and Instituto del Mar del Peru.
- Jimenez Prado, P. & Bearez, P. (2004) Peces marinos del Ecuador continental / marine fishes of continental Ecuador. SIMBIOE / NAZCA / IFEA TOMO II, Quito.
- 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.