Published October 19, 2021 | Version v1
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Cephaloscyllium ventriosum

Description

Cephaloscyllium ventriosum (Garman, 1880).

Swell Shark. To 110 cm (43.3 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2015). Monterey Bay, central California to Acapulco, Mexico, including Gulf of California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983); possibly from Ecuador to Chile (Robertson and Allen 2015). Benthic; depth: 5–457 m (15–1,500 ft) (min.: Roedel and Ripley 1950; Feder 1974).

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

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References

  • 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
  • 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.
  • Roedel, P. M. & Ripley, W. E. (1950) California sharks and rays. California Department of Fish and Game, Fish Bulletin, 75.