Lepophidium microlepis (Gilbert 1890)
- 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
- Ophidiiformes
- family
- Ophidiidae
- genus
- Lepophidium
- species
- Lepophidium microlepis
description
Finescale Cusk-eel or Silver Cusk-eel. To 50.6 cm (19.9 in) TL (Rodríguez-Romero et al. 2008). Islas de Cedros, central Baja California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California) to Gulf of California (Lea in Fischer et al. 1995). Depth: 16 – 350 m (53 – 1,148 ft) (min.: Nakaya et al. 2009; max.: Jiménez Prado and Béarez 2004). The “ Lepophidium microlepis ” of Chirichigno and Vélez (1998), from Paita, Peru, refers to Lepodophidium inca Robins & Lea, 1978.