Ophidion scrippsae

Ophidion scrippsae (Hubbs, 1916). Basketweave Cusk-eel. To nearly 28 cm (11 in) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Point Arguello, central California (Miller and Lea 1972) to Bahía Magdalena (24°35.9’N, 112°02.6’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography F...

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Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
Format: Other/Unknown Material
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Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/5822364
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5822364
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Summary:Ophidion scrippsae (Hubbs, 1916). Basketweave Cusk-eel. To nearly 28 cm (11 in) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Point Arguello, central California (Miller and Lea 1972) to Bahía Magdalena (24°35.9’N, 112°02.6’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Records from north of Point Arguello are without documentation (Robert Lea, pers. comm. to M.L.), and a Gulf of California record is in error (Robins in Nielsen et al. 1999). Benthic; depth: 2–1,098 m (5–3,601 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max: NWFSC-FRAM). A record from Santa Cruz County coast (37°38’N, 120°39.2’W) (A specimen in the University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection is in error (Burton and Lea 2019)). 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 83, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008