Zaprora silenus Jordan 1896
- 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
- Zaproridae
- genus
- Zaprora
- species
- Zaprora silenus
description
Prowfish. To 1 m (3.3 ft) TL or more (Mecklenburg 2003). Hokkaido, Japan and Sea of Okhotsk, Kuril Islands, Commander-Aleutian Islands to Bering Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2016) to eastern Chukchi Sea (west of Kivalina, 67 ° 32 ’ N, 165 ° 54 ’ W) (Mecklenburg et al. 2011) to San Miguel Island, southern California (Allen and Smith 1988). Depth: 0 – 801 m (2,628 ft) (min.: Federov et al. 2003; max.: Smith et al. 2004); adults near bottom, young fish often taken near surface (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).
Name
- Homonyms
- Zaprora silenus Jordan 1896