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Lepophidium prorates
Description
Lepophidium prorates (Jordan & Bollman, 1890).
Prowspine Cusk-eel or Spinesnout Brotula. To 35.5 cm (14 in) TL (Rodríguez-Romero et al. 2008). Isla de Cedros, central Baja California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California); Gulf of California (Robins et al. 2012) to Paita, Peru (Chirichigno 1974), including Gulf of California (Allen and Robertson 1994). Depth: 3–367 m (10–1,204 ft) (min.: Robins et al. 2012; max.: Zeballos Flor et al. 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 83, 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
- Jordan & Bollman
- Species
- prorates
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lepophidium prorates (Jordan, 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
- Robins, C. R., Robins, R. H. & Brown, M. E. (2012) A revision of Lepophidium (Teleostei, Ophidiidae), with descriptions of eight new species. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History, 52, 1 - 93.
- Chirichigno, F. N. (1974) Clave para identificar los peces marinos del Peru. Instituto del Mar del Peru Informe, No. 44.
- Allen, G. R. & Robertson, D. R. (1994) Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
- Zeballos Flor, J., Samame, M. & Romero, M. (1998) Estructura especiologica demersal observada durante el Crucero de Evaluacion de la Merluza entre Puerto Pizarro y Huarmey. Informe IMARPE, 138, 87 - 100.