Stereolepis gigas Ayres 1859
- 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
- Polyprionidae
- genus
- Stereolepis
- species
- Stereolepis gigas
description
Giant Sea Bass. To 2.7 m (8.9 ft) TL (Parker House, pers. comm. to M. L.). Northern Japan and Sea of Japan (Mochizuki in Masuda et al. 1984) (but likely in error); Humboldt Bay, northern California (Miller and Lea 1972) to Oaxaca, southern Mexico (Shane et al. in Moser 1996), including Gulf of California (Miller and Lea 1972). Depth: 5 – 55 m (18 – 180 ft) (min.: Miller and Lea 1972; max.: Conner Jainese, pers. comm. to M. L.).
Name
- Homonyms
- Stereolepis gigas Ayres 1859