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CAS-ICH 202829 Diaphus theta   [Catalog of Fishes]       ID by/date  Myctophidae
Counts (Alc/Skel/CS) 1/0/0 Prep Type - Preservative alc-75% EtOH Other/Previous Number Size      
Collector; Vessel Templeton Crocker Exped.; Zaca Field Number TCE 14-XI-31 Date Collected 14 Nov 1931 
Continent/Ocean Pacific Ocean / NE Pacific Country Mexico State Baja California County
Water Body Drainage Island Group Island Guadalupe I.
Depth Width Salinity Gear
Locality Guadalupe I.
Latitude-Longitude 29.037411°, -118.318189°; uncertainty: 18470 m (Source: FishNet Collaborative Georeferencing Project) Bottom Type
Georef. RemarksPolygon covers Guadalupe Island, Islas Revillagigedos are a few hundred miles south of Guadalupe. In 1925, the California Academy of Sciences (San Francisco) mounted an expedition to explore the Revillagigedo Archipelago off the Pacific coast of Mexico (Hanna 1926). The U.S. Navy generously provided the ship, the U.S.Ortolan, a mine sweeper. En route to the Revillagigedo Archipelago, the expedition spent three days at Isla Guadalupe (19–22 April 1925).
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