Macroramphosus scolopax
Description
Macroramphosus scolopax (Linnaeus, 1758).
Longnosed Snipefish, Longspine Snipefish, or Slender Snipefish. To 22.8 cm (9 in) TL (Borges 2001). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Senou in Nakabo 2002); between Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz Islands, southern California (Mary Nishimoto, pers. comm. to M.L.) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), also seen near bottom (Parin and Pakhorukov 2003) to 600 m (1,968 ft) (Fritzsche and Thiesfeld in Carpenter and Niem 1999). Also recently as Macroramphosus gracilis (Lowe, 1839). Mundy (2005) presents arguments for and against synonymizing M. scolopax with M. gracilis.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Centriscidae
- Genus
- Macroramphosus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Syngnathiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- scolopax
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Macroramphosus scolopax (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Borges, L. (2001) A new maximum length for the snipefish Macrorhamphosus scolopax. Cybium, 25, 191 - 192.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.
- Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (Eds.). (1999) The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. Volume 3. Batoid Fishes, Chimaeras and Bony Fishes Part 1 (Elopidae to Linophrynidae). Volume 4. Bony Fishes Part 2 (Mugilidae to Carangidae). FAO, Rome.
- Mundy, B. C. (2005) Checklist of the Fishes of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu.