Tetronarce californica
Description
Tetronarce californica (Ayres, 1855).
Pacific Electric Ray or Pacific Torpedo Ray. To 137 cm (53.9 in) TL (Ebert 2003). western Pacific Ocean off Sanriku, Japan (Hatooka in Nakabo 2002) and South Kuril Islands and Kinmei Seamount (Dolganov 2015); Wiah Point, Graham Island, northern British Columbia (Clemens and Wilby 1961) to Todos Santos (23°24.6’N, 110°13.8’W), southern Baja California (John Snow, pers. comm. to M.L.), including Isla Guadalupe, central Baja California (Reyes-Bonilla et al. 2010), and Peru (Cornejo et al. 2015). Several records from the Gulf of California (e.g., Escobado-Sánchez et al. 2010). Depth: intertidal to at least 406 m (1,332 ft) (min.: Carlisle et al. 1960; max.: Weigman 2016), and possibly to 1,079 m (3,539 ft) (Bradburn et al. 2011). Previously Torpedo californica Ayres, 1855.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Torpedinidae
- Genus
- Tetronarce
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Torpediniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Ayres
- Species
- californica
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Tetronarce californica (Ayres, 1855) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Ebert, D. A. (2003) Sharks, Rays, and Chimaeras of California. University of California Press, Berkeley.
- Nakabo, T. (Ed.). (2002) Fishes of Japan with Pictorial Keys to the Species. Tokai University Press, Tokyo.
- Dolganov, V. N. (2015) The Pacific electric ray Torpedo (Tetronarce) californica Ayres, 1855, the first of the order Torpediniformes in the waters of Russia, with comments on the formation of its range. Russian Journal of Marine Biology, 41, 295 - 299. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 1063074015040057
- Clemens, W. A. & Wilby, G. V. (1961) Fishes of the Pacific Coast of Canada, Second Edition. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 68.
- Reyes-Bonilla, H., Ayala-Bocos, A., Gonzalez-Romero, S., Sanchez-Alcantara, I., Mendoza, M. W., Bedolla-Guzman, Y. R., Ramirez-Valdez, A., Calderon-Aguilera, L. E. & Olivares-Banuelos, N. C. (2010) Checklist and biogeography of fishes from Guadalupe Island, western Mexico. CalCOFI Reports, 51, 195 - 209.
- Cornejo, R., Velez-Zuazo, X., Gonzalez-Pestana, A., Kouri J., C. & Mucientes, G. (2015) An updated checklist of Chondrichthyes from the southeast Pacific off Peru. CheckList, 11, 1809. https: // doi. org / 10.15560 / 11.6.1809
- Carlisle, J. G. Jr., Schott, J. W. & Abramson, N. J. (1960) The barred surfperch (Amphistichus argenteus Agassiz) in southern California. California Department of Fish and Game, Fish Bulletin, 109.
- Bradburn, M. J., Keller, A. A. & Horness, B. H. (2011) The 2003 to 2008 U. S. West Coast bottom trawl surveys of groundfish resources off Washington, Oregon, and California: estimates of distribution, abundance, length, and age composition. National Marine Fisheries Service Technical Memorandum, NMFS-NWFSC- 114.