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Porichthys mimeticus Walker & Rosenblatt 1988
Description
Porichthys mimeticus Walker & Rosenblatt, 1988.
Mimetic Midshipman or Mimic Midshipman. To 28 cm (11 in) SL (John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.). Todos Santos (23°24.6’N, 110°13.8’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Gulf of California (Walker and Rosenblatt 1988) to about Puerto Vallarta (Robertson and Allen 2015). Depth: 82–298 m (269–977 ft) (min.: Walker and Rosenblatt 1988; max.: Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California).
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 85, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Batrachoididae
- Genus
- Porichthys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Batrachoidiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Walker & Rosenblatt
- Species
- mimeticus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Porichthys mimeticus Walker, 1988 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Walker, H. J. Jr. & Rosenblatt, R. H. (1988) Pacific toadfishes of the genus Porichthys (Batrachoididae) with descriptions of three new species. Copeia, 1988, 887 - 904.
- Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages