Opisthopterus dovii (Gunther 1868)
- 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
- Clupeiformes
- family
- Pristigasteridae
- genus
- Opisthopterus
- species
- Opisthopterus dovii
description
Dove’s Longfin Herring or Pacific Longfin Herring. To 23 cm (9.1 in) (Robertson and Allen 2008). Punta Marquez, southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Punta Malpelo, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Gulf of California (Allen and Robertson 1994). Inshore waters and estuaries (Allen and Robertson 1994); depth: intertidal to 37 m (121 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California).
Name
- Homonyms
- Opisthopterus dovii (Gunther 1868)