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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Zootaxa
2021
2021-10-19
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Unidentified pearlfish.
Jordan
(1921) noted that a pearlfish identified as
Fierasfer dubius
Putnam, 1874
, was collected “
150 miles
southwest of Point Loma,” southern California, placing the collection off northern Baja California.
Fierasfer dubius
, now
Carapus dubius
(Putnam, 1874)
, is known from the Pacific coast of southern Baja California (
23°33.6’N
,
110°21.5’W
) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California).
Jordan
described the specimen as “encrusted in mother of pearl” (as occasionally happens to the commensal pearlfishes), which would have made identification to species problematic.