Ophidion scrippsae
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)).
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Additional details
Identifiers
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