Elops affinis Regan 1909
- 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
- Elopiformes
- family
- Elopidae
- genus
- Elops
- species
- Elops affinis
description
Machete or Pacific Ladyfish. To 91.4 cm (36 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Mandalay Beach, southern California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California) to Talara, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Whitehead and Rodríguez-Sánchez in Fischer et al. 1995). Marine and brackish waters (Romero-Berny et al. 2018); depth: 1 – 10 m (4 – 33 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max. Robertson and Allen 2002).
Name
- Homonyms
- Elops affinis Regan 1909