Synodus scituliceps Jordan & Gilbert 1882
- 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
- Aulopiformes
- family
- Synodontidae
- genus
- Synodus
- species
- Synodus scituliceps
description
Lance Lizardfish or Shorthead Lizardfish. To 55 cm (21.6 in) TL (Amezcua Linares 1996). Ensenada Bay (31 ° 51 ’ N, 116 ° 38 ’ W) (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California), northern Baja California, Isla Guadalupe, central Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) and Laguna San Ignacio, southern Baja California (De La Cruz-Agüero and Cota-Gómez 1998) into Gulf of California (Bussing and Lavenberg in Fischer et al. 1995) to Chile (Pequeño 1989) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Marine and brackish waters (Romero-Berny et al. 2021); benthic; depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to 172 m (3 – 564 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Zeballos Flor et al. 1998).