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
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Leuroglossus stilbius
Gilbert, 1890
.
California Smoothtongue
. To
20 cm
(
7.9 in
) TL (
Kamikawa 2017
). Washington State (
Kamikawa 2017
) to Peru (
Nakaya
et al.
2009
), including Gulf of California (
Miller and Lea 1972
).
Leuroglossus stilbius urotranus
reported from
Chile
(
Pequeño 1989
) is considered
Leuroglossus urotranus
Bussing, 1965
(
Fricke
et al.
2020
). Epipelagic to mesopelagic; depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California),
13 m
to perhaps
3,824 m
(
42-12,542 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). A number of “
Leuroglossus stilbius
” in the University of Washington collection are listed as having been captured off Alaska—these should be considered as
Leuroglossus schmidti
Rass, 1955
(Katherine Maslenikov).