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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Muraena argus
(Steindachner, 1870)
.
Argus Moray
or White-spotted Moray. To
120 cm
(
47.2 in
) TL (
Jiménez Prado and Béarez 2004
). Santa Catalina Island (
McCosker and Smith 2004
) and Redondo Beach, southern California (Phil Garner, pers. comm. to M.L.), La Jolla, southern California (Scott McGee, pers. comm. to M.L.), and Bahía Magdalena (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), southern Baja California to Islas Lobos de Afuera, Peru (
Chirichigno and Vélez 1998
), including Islas Galápagos (
Grove and Lavenberg 1997
), Gulf of California, and other offshore islands (
Robertson and Allen 2002
). Benthic; depth:
5–120 m
(
17–394 ft
) (min.:
Robertson and Allen 2008
; max.:
Aburto-Oropeza
et al.
2011
).