Micrometrus minimus

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Perciformes; Embiotocidae; Micrometrus; Micrometrus minimus; Yukon; Baja; Milton; Scripps; Punta Baja; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5607912; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5607912

Micrometrus minimus (Gibbons, 1854). Dwarf Perch or Dwarf Surfperch. To 16 cm (6.3 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Salt Point, northern California (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California) to Punta Baja (central Baja California) (Ruiz-Campos et al. 2010b), and Isla de Cedros, central Baja California (Miller and Lea 1972). Depth: intertidal to 20 m (66 ft) (min.: Miller and Lea 1972; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). One individual collected from the mouth of a coastal creek at a salinity of 1.1 ppt (Ruiz-Campos et al. 2000). Also anomalously deep captures with bottom trawls reported at 46 m (150 ft) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), and 73 m (240 ft) (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 173, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008