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Paraletharchus pacificus
Description
* Paraletharchus pacificus (Osburn & Nichols, 1916).
Pacific Sailfin Eel or Sailfin Eel. To 81 cm (31.9 in) TL (McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995). Gulf of California (McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995) to Panama (Allen and Robertson 1994), including southern tip of Baja California (McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995) and Isla del Cocos (Robertson and Allen 2002). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 35 m (115 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995).
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 36, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Ophichthidae
- Genus
- Paraletharchus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Anguilliformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Osburn & Nichols
- Species
- pacificus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Paraletharchus pacificus (Osburn, 1916) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Fischer, W., Krupp, F., Schneider, W., Sommer, C., Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (1995) Guia FAO para la identificacion para los fines de la pesca. Pacifico centro-oriental. Volume II, Vertebrados, Parte 1. Volume III, Vertebrados, Parte 2. FAO, Rome.
- Allen, G. R. & Robertson, D. R. (1994) Fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu.
- Robertson, D. R. & Allen, G. R. (2002) Shorefishes of the tropical eastern Pacific: an information system. CD-ROM. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Panama.