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Brosmophycis marginata
Description
Brosmophycis marginata (Ayres, 1854).
Red Brotula. To 46 cm (18 in) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983), reported to 50.8 cm (20 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1976). Petersburg, south-eastern Alaska (Schultz and Delacy 1936; documented in the University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection (Mecklenburg et al. 2002)) to Ensenada, northern Baja California (Miller and Lea 1972). However, larvae have been taken along much of the northern and central Baja California coast south to Punta Eugenia (Moser et al. 1993). Benthic; depth: 3–256 m (10–840 ft) (Miller and Lea 1972).
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 84, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Bythitidae
- Genus
- Brosmophycis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Ophidiiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Ayres
- Species
- marginata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Brosmophycis marginata (Ayres, 1854) 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. & R. N. Lea. (1976) Addendum. In: Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157, pp. 237 - 249 [Reprint with addendum.]
- Schultz, L. P. & DeLacy, A. C. (1936) Fishes of the American Northwest. A catalogue of the fishes of Washington and Oregon, with distributional records and a bibliography. Journal of the Pan-Pacific Research Institute, 10, 365 - 380, 11, 63 - 78, 127 - 142, 211 - 226, 275 - 290.
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Moser, H. G., Charter, R. L., Smith, P. E., Ambrose, D. A., Charter, S. R., Meyer, C. A., Sandknop, E. M. & Watson, W. W. (1993) Distributional atlas of fish larvae and eggs in the California Current region: taxa with 1000 or more total larvae, 1951 through 1984. CalCOFI Atlas, No. 31.