Lepophidium microlepis

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Ophidiiformes; Ophidiidae; Lepophidium; Lepophidium microlepis; Beaufort Sea; Alaska; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5822344; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FFC0FFE498EAFA33FBA9368B

Lepophidium microlepis (Gilbert, 1890). Finescale Cusk-eel or Silver Cusk-eel.To 50.6 cm (19.9 in) TL (Rodríguez-Romero et al. 2008). Islas de Cedros, central Baja California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California) to Gulf of California (Lea in Fischer et al. 1995). Depth: 16–350 m (53–1,148 ft) (min.: Nakaya et al. 2009; max.: Jiménez Prado and Béarez 2004). The “ Lepophidium microlepis ” of Chirichigno and Vélez (1998), from Paita, Peru, refers to Lepodophidium inca Robins & Lea, 1978. 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 82, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008