Brachyistius frenatus Gill 1862
- 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
- Embiotocidae
- genus
- Brachyistius
- species
- Brachyistius frenatus
description
Kelp Perch or Kelp Surfperch. To 21.6 cm (8.5 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Near Sitka, south-eastern Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Bahía Tortugas, central Baja California, including Isla Guadalupe (Miller and Lea 1972). Depth: intertidal to 76 m (249 ft) (min.: Hubbs and Hubbs 1954; max.: M. L., unpubl. data); primarily at middepths among columns of giant kelp (particularly Macrocystis) (Hubbs and Hubbs 1954). Brachyistius aletes Tarp, 1952 is a synonym (Longo et al. 2018).
Name
- Homonyms
- Brachyistius frenatus Gill 1862