Porichthys mimeticus Walker & Rosenblatt 1988
- 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
- Batrachoidiformes
- family
- Batrachoididae
- genus
- Porichthys
- species
- Porichthys mimeticus
description
Mimetic Midshipman or Mimic Midshipman. To 28 cm (11 in) SL (John Snow, pers. comm. to M. L.). Todos Santos (23 ° 24.6 ’ N, 110 ° 13.8 ’ W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Gulf of California (Walker and Rosenblatt 1988) to about Puerto Vallarta (Robertson and Allen 2015). Depth: 82 – 298 m (269 – 977 ft) (min.: Walker and Rosenblatt 1988; max.: Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California).