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Lance lizardfish
Synodus scituliceps Jordan & Gilbert, 1882
Also calledHuavina (spa) · Lagarto camote puro (spa) · Lagarto liguisa (spa) · chile arpón (spa) · ještěrohlavec krátkohlavý (ces) · Гуавина (rus)
First described in: Jordan, D. S. ; Gilbert, C. H. (1882). Descriptions of thirty-three new species of fishes from Mazatlan, Mexico. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> v. 4 (no. 237): 338-365.
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
Lance Lizardfish or Shorthead Lizardfish. To 55 cm (21.6 in) TL (Amezcua Linares 1996). Ensenada Bay (31 ° 51 ’ N, 116 ° 38 ’ W) (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California), northern Baja California, Isla Guadalupe, central Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) and Laguna San Ignacio, southern Baja California (De La Cruz-Agüero and Cota-Gómez 1998) into Gulf of California (Bussing and Lavenberg in Fischer et al. 1995) to Chile (Pequeño 1989) and Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Marine and brackish waters (Romero-Berny et al. 2021); benthic; depth: surface (nightlight; Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), intertidal to 172 m (3 – 564 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max.: Zeballos Flor et al. 1998).
Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 5212671.