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Ophidion scrippsae

Creators

Description

Ophidion scrippsae (Hubbs, 1916).

Basketweave Cusk-eel. To nearly 28 cm (11 in) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Point Arguello, central California (Miller and Lea 1972) to Bahía Magdalena (24°35.9’N, 112°02.6’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Records from north of Point Arguello are without documentation (Robert Lea, pers. comm. to M.L.), and a Gulf of California record is in error (Robins in Nielsen et al. 1999). Benthic; depth: 2–1,098 m (5–3,601 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max: NWFSC-FRAM). A record from Santa Cruz County coast (37°38’N, 120°39.2’W) (A specimen in the University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection is in error (Burton and Lea 2019)).

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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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FFC3FFE798EAFB00F8553628

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF87FFAEFF91FFB5987DFFF2FA413005 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 (URL)
Is source of
https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03BE87D6FFC3FFE798EAFB00F8553628 (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/191883161 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/2792/taxon/03BE87D6FFC3FFE798EAFB00F8553628.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Ophidiidae
Genus
Ophidion
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Ophidiiformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Hubbs
Species
scrippsae
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Ophidion scrippsae (Hubbs, 1916) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021

References

  • 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, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
  • 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.
  • Burton, E. J. & Lea, R. N. (2019) Annotated checklist of fishes from Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary with notes on extralimital species. ZooKeys, 887. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 887.38024