Bajacalifornia
Sign in to saveBajacalifornia is a genus of slickheads. It was described in 1925 by Charles Haskins Townsend and John Treadwell Nichols on the basis of Bajacalifornia burragei which was discovered in 1911 during the deep sea expedition of the research vessel USS Albatross off the coast of Todos Santos Bay at the Baja California peninsula. In 1952 Ichthyologist Albert Eide Parr published a revision of this genus.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Bajacalifornia is referenced by 6 other articles, and connects out to Alepocephalidae, Animalia and Indian Ocean.
It is catalogued under topics including Actinopterygii genera, Alepocephalidae and Fish described in 1925.
Its subject is documented across 10 Wikipedia language editions.
Species
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderOsmeriformes
- FamilyAlepocephalidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 26
- Family
- Alepocephalidae
- Collections
- NHMUK, KU, LACM, CAS, QM, MAGNT
- Recorded in
- Mexico, Angola, Peru, Australia, Golfe De Gascogne, Indonesia
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- Parent taxon
- Alepocephalidae
- Image
- Bajacalifornia megalops.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
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Bajacalifornia is a genus of slickheads. It was described in 1925 by Charles Haskins Townsend and John Treadwell Nichols on the basis of Bajacalifornia burragei which was discovered in 1911 during the deep sea expedition of the research vessel USS Albatross off the coast of Todos Santos Bay at the Baja California peninsula. In 1952 Ichthyologist Albert Eide Parr published a revision of this genus.
==Species== There are currently six recognized species in this genus: Bajacalifornia aequatoris Miya & Markle, 1993 Bajacalifornia arcylepis Markle & G. Krefft, 1985 (Network slickhead) Bajacalifornia burragei C. H. Townsend & Nichols, 1925 (Sharpchin slickhead) Bajacalifornia calcarata (M. C. W. Weber, 1913) (Brown slickhead) Bajacalifornia megalops (Lütken, 1898) (Bigeye smooth-head) Bajacalifornia microstoma Sazonov, 1988
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