Paraletharchus pacificus (Osburn & Nichols 1916)
- 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
- Anguilliformes
- family
- Ophichthidae
- genus
- Paraletharchus
- species
- Paraletharchus pacificus
description
Pacific Sailfin Eel or Sailfin Eel. To 81 cm (31.9 in) TL (McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995). Gulf of California (McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995) to Panama (Allen and Robertson 1994), including southern tip of Baja California (McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995) and Isla del Cocos (Robertson and Allen 2002). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 35 m (115 ft) (min.: Robertson and Allen 2002; max.: McCosker and Rosenblatt in Fischer et al. 1995).