Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Author
Love, Milton S.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Author
Bizzarro, Joseph J.
0000-0002-2412-9357
joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov
Author
Cornthwaite, Maria
0000-0002-1528-3272
maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Author
Frable, Benjamin W.
0000-0003-4525-0671
bfrable@ucsd.edu
Author
Maslenikov, Katherine P.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
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Gymnura marmorata
(Cooper, 1864)
.
California Butterfly Ray
. To
157 cm
(
61.8 in
) DW (Jonathan Williams, pers. comm. to M.L.). Point Conception, California (
Miller and Lea 1972
) through
Baja California
Peninsula, and eastern Gulf of California, and to at least El Chuyudo (
28°19.2’N
),
Sonora
,
Mexico
(
Smith
et al.
2009
). Benthic; depth: intertidal to
94 m
(
308 ft
) (min.:
Carlisle
et al.
1960
; max.:
Amezcua Linares 1996
). Records from south of Gulf of California are likely misidentified
Gymnura crebripunctata
(Peters, 1869) (
Last
et al.
2016
)
, or
Gymnura afuera
Hildebrand, 1946
.