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Ophidion imitator Lea 1997
Description
* Ophidion imitator Lea, 1997.
Mimic Cusk-eel. To 20 cm (7.9 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Off Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California and Mazatlán to Gulf of Panama (Lea 1997). Benthic; depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), 18–402 m (59–1,319 ft) (min.: Lea 1997; max.: Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California). All adults have been taken in waters greater than 40 m (132 ft) deep (Lea 1980).
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 83, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ophidiidae
- Genus
- Ophidion
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Ophidiiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Lea
- Species
- imitator
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ophidion imitator Lea, 1997 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Lea, R. N. (1997) A new and unique Ophidiine cusk-eel from the Panamic region of the eastern North Pacific. Bulletin of Marine Science, 60, 960 - 965.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.
- Lea, R. N. (1980) Systematics and Zoogeography of Cusk-eels of the Family Ophidiidae, subfamily Ophidiinae, from the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Ph. D. Thesis, University of Miami, Florida.