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Esselenichthys carli

Description

Esselenichthys carli (Follett & Anderson, 1990).

Threeline Prickleback. To 27 cm (10.6 in) SL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Pacific Grove, northern California to Bahía San Quintin, northern Baja California (Follett and Anderson 1990). Benthic; depth: 1–29 m (4–95 ft) (min.: Follett and Anderson 1990; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). The original genus name was Esselenia, but this name is not available for fishes because it was already given to a grasshopper, Anderson (2003) changed the name to Esselenichthys.

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 187, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Follett, W. I. & Anderson, M. E. (1990) Esselinia, a new genus of prickleback (Teleostei: Stichaeidae), with two new species from California and Baja California Norte. Copeia, 1990, 147 - 163.
  • Anderson, M. E. (2003) Esselenichthys: a new replacement name for Esselenia Follett and Anderson, 1990, junior homonym of Esselenia Hebard, 1920 (Orthoptera). Copeia, 2003, 414. https: // doi. org / 10.1643 / 0045 - 8511 (2003) 003 [0414: eanrnf] 2.0. co; 2