Hyperprosopon argenteum Gibbons 1854
- 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
- Hyperprosopon
- species
- Hyperprosopon argenteum
description
Walleye Surfperch. To 30.5 cm (12 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Willapa Bay, Washington (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California) to Punta San Rosarito (Miller and Lea 1972), and Isla de Cedros, central Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), including Isla Guadalupe (Miller and Lea 1972). Depth: surface and intertidal to 182 m (597 ft) (min.: Ruiz-Campos et al. 2010 b; max.: M. L., unpubl. data). One taken inside the mouth of a stream (24.6 ppt) during tidal inflow (Ruiz-Campos et al. 2000). A record from Vancouver Island is in error (Theodore Pietsch, pers. comm. to M. L.).
Name
- Homonyms
- Hyperprosopon argenteum Gibbons 1854