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Brachyistius frenatus Gill 1862
Description
Brachyistius frenatus Gill, 1862.
Kelp Perch or Kelp Surfperch. To 21.6 cm (8.5 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Near Sitka, south-eastern Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Bahía Tortugas, central Baja California, including Isla Guadalupe (Miller and Lea 1972). Depth: intertidal to 76 m (249 ft) (min.: Hubbs and Hubbs 1954; max.: M.L., unpubl. data); primarily at middepths among columns of giant kelp (particularly Macrocystis) (Hubbs and Hubbs 1954). Brachyistius aletes Tarp, 1952 is a synonym (Longo et al. 2018).
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 172, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Embiotocidae
- Genus
- Brachyistius
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gill
- Species
- frenatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Brachyistius frenatus Gill, 1862 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.
- Hubbs, C. L. & Hubbs, L. C. (1954) Data on the life history, variation, ecology, and relationships of the kelp perch, Brachyistius frenatus, an embiotocid fish of the Californias. California Fish and Game, 40, 183 - 198.
- Longo, G. C., Bernardi, G. & Lea, R. N. (2018) Taxonomic revisions within Embiotocidae (Teleostei, Perciformes) based on molecular phylogenetics. Zootaxa, 4482, 591 - 596. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4482.3.10