Macroramphosus scolopax

• 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; Actinopterygii; Syngnathiformes; Centriscidae; Macroramphosus; Macroramphosus scolopax; Yukon; Pacific; Lowe; Milton; Scripps; Archipelago; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5603863; https://zenodo.org/record/5603863

Macroramphosus scolopax (Linnaeus, 1758). Longnosed Snipefish, Longspine Snipefish , or Slender Snipefish. To 22.8 cm (9 in) TL (Borges 2001). Circumglobal; western Pacific Ocean north to Japan (Senou in Nakabo 2002); between Santa Rosa and Santa Cruz Islands, southern California (Mary Nishimoto, pers. comm. to M.L.) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Depth: surface (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), also seen near bottom (Parin and Pakhorukov 2003) to 600 m (1,968 ft) (Fritzsche and Thiesfeld in Carpenter and Niem 1999). Also recently as Macroramphosus gracilis (Lowe, 1839). Mundy (2005) presents arguments for and against synonymizing M. scolopax with M. gracilis . : 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 104, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 : {"references": ["Borges, L. (2001) A new maximum length for the snipefish Macrorhamphosus scolopax. Cybium, 25, 191 - 192.", "Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.", "Pequeno R., G. (1989) Peces de Chile lista sistematica revisada y comentada. Revista de Biologia Marina y Oceanografia, 24, 1 - 132.", "Carpenter, K. E. & Niem, V. H. (Eds.). (1999) The Living Marine Resources of the Western Central Pacific. Volume 3. Batoid Fishes, Chimaeras and Bony Fishes Part 1 (Elopidae to Linophrynidae). Volume 4. Bony Fishes Part 2 (Mugilidae to Carangidae). FAO, Rome.", "Mundy, B. C. (2005) Checklist of the Fishes of the Hawaiian Archipelago. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu."]}