Basketweave cusk-eel
| Basketweave cusk-eel | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Ophidiiformes |
| Family: | Ophidiidae |
| Genus: | Ophidion |
| Species: | O. scrippsae |
| Binomial name | |
| Ophidion scrippsae (Hubbs, 1916) | |
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Basketweave cusk-eel (Ophidion scrippsae) is a fish species in the family Ophidiidae. It is widespread in the Eastern Pacific Ocean from Point Arguello in California, United States, to Baja California. The basketweave cusk-eel is a marine subtropical demersal fish that can be up to 28 centimetres (11 in) long.[2] The specific name honours the journalist and philanthropist Ellen B. Scripps (1836-1932)[3] one of the founders of the Scripps Research Institute.[4]
Sources
- ↑ Lea, B.; Béarez, P. & McCosker, J. (2010). "Ophidion scrippsae". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2010: e.T183355A8098770. Retrieved 15 July 2018.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). "Ophidion scrippsae" in FishBase. December 2012 version.
- ↑ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (21 March 2018). "Order OPHIDIIFORMES: Families CARAPIDAE and OPHIDIIDAE". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 12 July 2018.
- ↑ "In California: Miss Ellen Scripps...another Oxford Rises". Time magazine. February 22, 1926.
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