Esselenichthys laurae (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 laurae
description
Twoline Prickleback. To 9.8 cm (3.9 in) SL. Farallon Islands, northern California to Punta Banda, northern Baja California. Benthic; depth: 11 – 46 m (35 – 151 ft). All in Follett and Anderson (1990). The original genus name was Esselenia but was preoccupied as a grasshopper name, so Anderson (2003) changed the name to Esselenichthys.