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Title: California fish and game
Identifier: californiafishga63_4cali (find matches)
Year: [1] (s)
Authors: California. Dept. of Fish and Game; California. Fish and Game Commission; California. Division of Fish and Game
Subjects: Fisheries -- California; Game and game-birds -- California; Fishes -- California; Animal Population Groups; Pêches; Gibier; Poissons
Publisher: (San Francisco, etc. ) State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game
Contributing Library: California Department of Fish and Game
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258 CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME Since Maynea californica was not included in Miller and Lea's (1972) Califor- nia fish guide and now appears to be relatively abundant, it is important to note how it can be distinguished from other California zoarcids. First, Maynea has no pelvic fins, which distinguishes it from all but five species listed in Miller and Lea (1972). It can be distinguished from the midwater eelpout, Melanostigma pam- melas, by its large opercular opening, since Melanostigma has only a small round opercular opening above the pectoral fin base. Maynea is different than all species of Lycodapus in that it has gill membranes attached broadly at the isthmus, whereas Lycodapus has gill membranes free from the isthmus. Finally, Maynea can be distinguished from both species of Bothrocara with which it often has been confused in the systematic literature (Bayliff 1959), since Maynea's gill openings are narrower. In Bothrocara, the gill openings are large and therefore the gill membranes are narrowly joined at the isthmus (Hart 1973), while in Maynea, the distance between the lower ends of each gill slit (i.e., isthmus width) is approximately the length of the snout and less than two-thirds the length of the gill slit (Gilbert 1915). Also, Maynea californica has tubular nostrils and is "persimmon" in color. With these additional specimens, the known geographic range of Maynea californica is now from San Diego to Monterey Bay, California, and in water depths from 73 to 545 m (239 to 1787 ft); the majority taken shallower than 201 m (659 ft) (Table 1).
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FIGURE 2. Right sagitta (otolith), 1.6 mm long, from Maynea californica (CAS 17623, No. 7, 182 mm SL). Photograph by Gary McDonald, October 1975. Subsequent "habitat trap" sets produced even more specimens of Maynea californica, as well as several species of invertebrates. The April 5 set captured

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