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CAS-ICH 2096 Micrometrus aletes   [Catalog of Fishes] PARATYPE ID by/date  Tarp, Fred Harald / Oct 1952 Embiotocidae
Counts (Alc/Skel/CS) 1/0/0 Prep Type - Preservative alc-75% EtOH Other/Previous Number 5004 Size 115 mm
Collector; Vessel Hanna, G. Dallas; Jordan, Eric K.; et al; ORLOTAN Field Number CAS 21-IV-25B Date Collected 21 Apr 1925 
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 Isla Guadalupe.
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).
Acc. Number Specimen Remarks Publ.: Calif. Dept. Fish & Game, Bureau of Marine Fish., Fish Bull. (88):89; subgenus *Brachyistius*.
Collecting Event Remarks CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES EXPEDITION 1925.