Peprilus simillimus

• 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; Perciformes; Stromateidae; Peprilus; Peprilus simillimus; Yukon; Baja; Canada; Pacific; British Columbia; Milton; Schott; Scripps; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5609799; https://zenodo.org/record/5609799

Peprilus simillimus (Ayres, 1860). Pacific Butterfish or Pacific Pompano . To about 36 cm (14.2 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2015). Haida Gwaii, British Columbia (Clemens and Wilby 1961) to southern Baja California (23°24.6’N, 110°13.8’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), and Gulf of California (Miller and Lea 1972). Depth: intertidal (Carlisle et al. 1960) to an uncertain maximum depth. We are unsure about the maximum depth attained by this species. The deepest depth in which this species has been directly observed (from a remotely operated vehicle) was 302 m (991 ft) (Joshua Smith, pers. comm to M.L. expanding on data in Smith and Lindholm 2016); thus a capture depth derived from a bottom trawl of 311 m (1,026 ft) (NWFSC-FRAM) is likely accurate. However, the NWFSC-FRAM database also contains bottom trawl catch records of 464 m (1,522 ft), 466 m (1,528 ft), and 550 m (1,804 ft). The problem is that it is unknown to what extent this nominally benthic species also occupies midwaters—thus potentially making it available to nets during deployment or retrieval. : 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 215, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 : {"references": ["Robertson, D. R. and Allen, G. R. (2015) Shorefishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific: an Information System. Version 2.0 (2008). Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa. http: // biogeodb. stri. si. edu / sftep / en / pages", "Clemens, W. A. & Wilby, G. V. (1961) Fishes of the Pacific Coast of Canada, Second Edition. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 68.", "Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.", "Carlisle, J. G. Jr., Schott, J. W. & Abramson, N. J. (1960) The barred surfperch (Amphistichus argenteus Agassiz) in southern California. California Department of Fish and Game, Fish Bulletin, 109.", "Smith, J. G. & Lindholm, J. (2016) Vertical stratification in the distribution of demersal fishes along the walls of the La Jolla and Scripps submarine canyons, California, USA. Continental Shelf Research, 125, 61 - 70. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. csr. 2016.07.001"]}