Elops affinis Regan, 1909

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 31

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5818809

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6-FF8F-FFAB-98EA-FDD0F8ED32F4

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Plazi

scientific name

Elops affinis Regan, 1909
status

 

Elops affinis Regan, 1909 View in CoL .

Machete or Pacific Ladyfish. To 91.4 cm (36 in) TL ( Miller and Lea 1972). Mandalay Beach, southern California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California) to Talara, Peru ( Chirichigno and Vélez 1998) , including Gulf of California (Whitehead and Rodríguez-Sánchez in Fischer et al. 1995). Marine and brackish waters ( Romero-Berny et al. 2018); depth: 1–10 m (4–33 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max. Robertson and Allen 2002).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Elopiformes

Family

Elopidae

Genus

Elops

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