Species details

Accepted scientific name:

Porichthys notatus Girard, 1854 (accepted name)

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Common names:

рыба-мичман тихоокеанская Russian

斑光蟾魚 Mandarin Chinese

斑光蟾鱼 Mandarin Chinese

Crapaud à nageoire unie French

Merikadettikala Finnish

Midshipman English

Plainfin frogfish English

Plainfin midshipman English

Ropusznik swiecacy Polish

Sångfisk Swedish

Sapo English, Finnish, Portuguese, Spanish

Sapo aleta lucia Spanish

Sapo cabezón Spanish

Sapo de aleta lucia Spanish

Singing fish English

Vestamerikansk kadetfisk Danish

Classification:

Animalia

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Phylum Chordata

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Class Actinopterygii

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Order Batrachoidiformes

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Family Batrachoididae

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Genus Porichthys

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Distribution:

USA (contiguous states); Pacific, Northeast; Pacific, Southwest; Pacific, Eastern Central; Pacific Ocean; Pacific Central-American Coastal; Nicaragua; Mexico; Gulf of Alaska; Eastern Pacific: Sitka, Alaska to Magdalena Bay, southern Baja California, Mexico. Records from areas south of Baja California and in the Gulf of California are in error. Two populations exist, one from Oregon northward and the other from San Francisco; Canada; California Current; Australia; Alaska (USA)

Additional data:

Source database:

FishBase, Dec 2008

Latest taxonomic scrutiny:

Group expert : Collette B.B., Data last modified by FishBase 16-Sep-1999

Online resource:

http://www.fishbase.org/...


CoL taxon LSID:

urn:lsid:catalogueoflife.org:taxon:4060c4f7-52c2-102c-b3cd-957176fb88b9:ac2009


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