Porichthys ephippiatus Walker & Rosenblatt 1988
- 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
- Batrachoidiformes
- family
- Batrachoididae
- genus
- Porichthys
- species
- Porichthys ephippiatus
description
Saddle Midshipman. To 13.5 cm (5.3 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002). Cabo San Lucas, southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), slightly into Gulf of California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), and Pacific coast of Mexico to Guatemala (Robertson and Allen 2002). Depth: 15 – 242 m (50 – 794 ft) (Walker and Rosenblatt 1988).