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Rimicola muscarum

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Description

Rimicola muscarum (Meek & Pierson, 1895).

Kelp Clingfish. To 7 cm (2.8 in) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Glacier Bay, south-eastern Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Punta Baja, northern Baja California (Watson in Moser 1996). Also reported from Kachemak Bay, northern Gulf of Alaska (Abookire 2002): the arrival of R. muscarum in Kachemak Bay coincided with arrival of large quantities of floating bull kelp (Nereocystis) which may have been their mode of travel (Love et al. 2005). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 5 m (16 ft) (min.: Miller and Lea 1972; max.: Shelly Moore, pers. comm. to M.L.). The Glacier Bay specimen (Personal communication: University of Alaska Fairbanks Fish Collection, Fairbanks, Alaska) may have been lost, as a different fish is now in the jar (Love et al. 2005).

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

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FF58FF7C98EAFC5BF87834BB

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF87FFAEFF91FFB5987DFFF2FA413005 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03BE87D6FF58FF7C98EAFC5BF87834BB (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/191881620 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/2792/taxon/03BE87D6FF58FF7C98EAFC5BF87834BB.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Gobiesocidae
Genus
Rimicola
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Gobiesociformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Meek & Pierson
Species
muscarum
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Rimicola muscarum (Meek, 1895) 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.
  • Moser, H. G. (Ed.). (1996) The early stages of fishes in the California Current region. CALCOFI Atlas, No. 33.
  • Abookire, A. A. (2002) Chapter 6. Benthic and intertidal fishes in Kachemak Bay. In: Piatt, J. F. (Ed.), Response of Seabirds to Fluctuations in Forage Fish Density. Final report to Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council (Restoration Project 00163 M) and Minerals Management Service (Alaska OCS Region). Alaska Science Center, United States Geological Survey, Anchorage, p. 48 - 54.
  • Love, M. S., Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A. & Thorsteinson, L. K. (2005) Resource inventory of marine and estuarine fishes of the West Coast and Alaska: a checklist of North Pacific and Arctic Ocean species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon Border. United States Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Biological Resources Divition, Seattle, OCS Study MMS 2005 - 030 and USGS / NBII 2005 - 001.
  • Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.