Macroramphosus scolopax ...

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, per...

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Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
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Published: Zenodo 2021
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5603863
https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.5603863
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Summary: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 ...