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Ophiodon elongatus Girard 1854

Description

Ophiodon elongatus Girard, 1854.

Lingcod. To 152 cm (60 in) TL (Wilby 1937). Just north of Alaska Peninsula (56°31.2’N, 161°00.6’W) (Personal communication: University of Alaska Fairbanks Fish Collection, Fairbanks, Alaska), Shumagin Islands, south-western Gulf of Alaska to Punta San Carlos, central Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), and Isla Natividad (Ramírez-Valdez et al. 2015). Fall et al. (2007) reported that lingcod were taken in the eastern Bering Sea from 2003–2006 in the subsistence Pacific halibut fishery; catches were made as far north as the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Benthic; depth: intertidal to 750 m (2,460 ft) (min.: confirmed by M.L., unpubl. data; max.: NWFSC-FRAM).

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

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References

  • Wilby, G. V. (1937) The lingcod, Ophiodon elongatus Girard. Bulletin of the Biological Board of Canada, 54.
  • Ramirez-Valdez, A., Aburto-Oropeza, O., Palacios-Salgado, D. S., Reyes-Bonilla, H., Dominguez Guerro, I., Hinojosa Arango, G., Correa S., F., Villasenor-Derbez, J. C., Cota-Nieto, J. J. & Hernadez-Velasco, A. (2015) The nearshore fishes of the Cedros Archipelago (north-eastern Pacific) and their biogeographic affinities. CalCOFI Reports, 56, 143 - 167.
  • Fall, J. A., Koster, D. & Turek, M. (2007) Subsistence harvests of Pacific halibut in Alaska, 2006. Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Technical Report, No. 333.