Heterodontus francisci

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Elasmobranchii; Heterodontiformes; Heterodontidae; Heterodontus; Heterodontus francisci; Yukon; Baja; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; Milton; Gonzalez; Scripps; Falla; Cornejo; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5600810; https://zenodo.org/record/5600810

Heterodontus francisci (Girard, 1855). Horn Shark . To at least 121 cm (47.6 in) TL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). The widely reported maximum length of 122 cm (48 in) TL (e.g., Miller and Lea 1972) is based on a statement in Roedel and Ripley (1950) that this species reached a maximum length of “about 4 feet [= 122 cm].” Bolinas, northern California (Personal communication: Santa Barbara Natural History Museum Fish Collection, Santa Barbara, California) to Gulf of California (Miller and Lea 1972); reported to Colombia (Mejîa-Falla et al. 2007), probably Ecuador (Ebert 2003), and Peru (Cornejo et al. 2015). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 201 m (660 ft) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). : 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 13, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 : {"references": ["Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.", "Roedel, P. M. & Ripley, W. E. (1950) California sharks and rays. California Department of Fish and Game, Fish Bulletin, 75.", "Ebert, D. A. (2003) Sharks, Rays, and Chimaeras of California. University of California Press, Berkeley.", "Cornejo, R., Velez-Zuazo, X., Gonzalez-Pestana, A., Kouri J., C. & Mucientes, G. (2015) An updated checklist of Chondrichthyes from the southeast Pacific off Peru. CheckList, 11, 1809. https: // doi. org / 10.15560 / 11.6.1809", "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."]}