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Ophidion galeoides
Description
Ophidion galeoides (Gilbert, 1890).
Shark Brotula, Spotfin Cusk-eel, or Striped Cusk-eel. To 21.5 cm (8.5 in) TL (Lea in Fischer et al. 1995) or 44.3 cm (17.4 in) TL (Rodríguez-Romero et al. 2008). Bahía de Sebastian Vizcaino, central Baja California (Lea 1980) to northern Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Allen and Robertson 1994). Benthic; depth: from less than 1 m (3 ft) to 75 m (246 ft) (min.: Lea 1980; max.: Robins in Nielsen et al. 1999).
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
- Ophidion
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Ophidiiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gilbert
- Species
- galeoides
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ophidion galeoides (Gilbert, 1890) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- 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.
- 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
- Lea, R. N. (1980) Systematics and Zoogeography of Cusk-eels of the Family Ophidiidae, subfamily Ophidiinae, from the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Ph. D. Thesis, University of Miami, Florida.
- 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.
- Allen, G. R. & Robertson, D. R. (1994) Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
- Nielsen, J. G., Cohen, D. M., Markle, D. F. & Robins, C. R. (1999) FAO species catalogue. Volume 18. Ophidiiform fishes of the world (Order Ophidiiformes). FAO Fisheries Synopsis, No. 125. FAO, Rome.