Porichthys margaritatus (Richardson 1844)
- 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 margaritatus
description
Blotched Midshipman, Bronze Midshipman, Daisy Midshipman, or Pearlspot Midshipman. To 19 cm (7.5 in) TL (Robertson and Allen 2002) or 28.2 cm (11.1 in) TL (Rodríguez-Romero et al. 2008). Bahía de Sebastian Vizcaino (about 27 ° 52 ’ N, 114 ° 38 ’ W) (Cabrera Mancilla et al. 1988) to Bahía de Sechura, Peru (Chirichigno 1974), including Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002), and Islas Galápagos (Collette in Fischer et al. 1995). Depth: 1 – 210 m (4 – 689 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).