Esselenichthys carli (Follett & Anderson 1990)
- 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
- Perciformes
- family
- Stichaeidae
- genus
- Esselenichthys
- species
- Esselenichthys carli
description
Threeline Prickleback. To 27 cm (10.6 in) SL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Pacific Grove, northern California to Bahía San Quintin, northern Baja California (Follett and Anderson 1990). Benthic; depth: 1 – 29 m (4 – 95 ft) (min.: Follett and Anderson 1990; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). The original genus name was Esselenia, but this name is not available for fishes because it was already given to a grasshopper, Anderson (2003) changed the name to Esselenichthys.