Heterodontus francisci (Girard 1855)
- 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
- Elasmobranchii
- order
- Heterodontiformes
- family
- Heterodontidae
- genus
- Heterodontus
- species
- Heterodontus francisci
description
Horn Shark. To at least 121 cm (47.6 in) TL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). The widely reported maximum length of 122 cm (48 in) TL (e. g., Miller and Lea 1972) is based on a statement in Roedel and Ripley (1950) that this species reached a maximum length of “ about 4 feet [= 122 cm]. ” Bolinas, northern California (Personal communication: Santa Barbara Natural History Museum Fish Collection, Santa Barbara, California) to Gulf of California (Miller and Lea 1972); reported to Colombia (Mejîa-Falla et al. 2007), probably Ecuador (Ebert 2003), and Peru (Cornejo et al. 2015). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 201 m (660 ft) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California).
Name
- Homonyms
- Heterodontus francisci (Girard 1855)