Ophidion scrippsae (Hubbs 1916)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Ophidiiformes
- family
- Ophidiidae
- genus
- Ophidion
- species
- Ophidion scrippsae
description
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 )).
Name
- Homonyms
- Ophidion scrippsae (Hubbs 1916)