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Lepophidium stigmatistium
Description
Lepophidium stigmatistium (Gilbert, 1890).
Blotchfin Cusk-eel or Mexican Cusk-eel. To 28 cm (11 in) TL (Rodríguez-Romero et al. 2008). Isla de Cedros, central Baja California (Ambrose in Moser 1996); along southern Baja California coast (25°35.8’N, 112°18.5’W) (Robins et al. 2012), and Gulf of California (Lea in Fischer et al. 1995). Benthic; depth: 20–238 m (66–781 ft) (Ambrose in Moser 1996).
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
- Lepophidium
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Ophidiiformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gilbert
- Species
- stigmatistium
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Lepophidium stigmatistium (Gilbert, 1890) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Rodriguez-Romero, J., Palacios-Salgado, D. S. & Gutierrez Sanchez, F. J. (2008) First record of the spottail moray Gymnothorax equatorialis (Anguilliformes: Muraenidae) off the west coast of Baja California Sur, Mexico. Marine Biodiversity Records, 1, 2 - 4. https: // doi. org / 10.1017 / s 1755267207007981
- Moser, H. G. (Ed.). (1996) The early stages of fishes in the California Current region. CALCOFI Atlas, No. 33.
- Robins, C. R., Robins, R. H. & Brown, M. E. (2012) A revision of Lepophidium (Teleostei, Ophidiidae), with descriptions of eight new species. Bulletin of the Florida Museum of Natural History, 52, 1 - 93.
- 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.