Gibbonsia elegans (Cooper 1864)
- 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
- Clinidae
- genus
- Gibbonsia
- species
- Gibbonsia elegans
description
Spotted Kelpfish. To 16 cm (6.3 in) TL (Miller et al. 2008). San Francisco Bay (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California), northern California to Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California, including Isla Guadalupe (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 56 m (185 ft) (min.: Wells 1986; max.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). The Spotted Kelpfish was mistakenly given the name Gibbonsia evides by Eschmeyer (1998); for explanation see Nelson et al. (2004: 243).
Name
- Homonyms
- Gibbonsia elegans (Cooper 1864)