walleye surfperch
Hyperprosopon argenteum Gibbons, 1854
Also calledditrème-vairon (fra) · mojarra ojona (spa)
First described in: Gibbons, W. P. (1854). Description of four new species of viviparous fish read before the California Academy of Natural Sciences,. <em>Daily Placer Times and Transcript [newspaper].</em> v. 5 (no. 1274): 2, col. 3.
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description
Walleye Surfperch. To 30.5 cm (12 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Willapa Bay, Washington (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California) to Punta San Rosarito (Miller and Lea 1972), and Isla de Cedros, central Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), including Isla Guadalupe (Miller and Lea 1972). Depth: surface and intertidal to 182 m (597 ft) (min.: Ruiz-Campos et al. 2010 b; max.: M. L., unpubl. data). One taken inside the mouth of a stream (24.6 ppt) during tidal inflow (Ruiz-Campos et al. 2000). A record from Vancouver Island is in error (Theodore Pietsch, pers. comm. to M. L.).
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