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CAS-ICH 2458 Hyperprosopon argenteum   [Catalog of Fishes]       ID by/date  Embiotocidae
Counts (Alc/Skel/CS) 1/0/0 Prep Type - Preservative alc-75% EtOH Other/Previous Number 0005 Size      
Collector; Vessel   Field Number Z2458 Date Collected 17 Mar 1932 
Continent/Ocean Pacific Ocean / NE Pacific Country Mexico State Baja California County
Water Body Drainage Island Group Island
Depth Width Salinity Gear
Locality Guadalupe I.: small sandbar at N.E. anchorage.
Latitude-Longitude 29.141141°, -118.267502°; uncertainty: 5415 m (Source: FishNet Collaborative Georeferencing Project) Bottom Type
Georef. RemarksPolygon covers NE landing side of 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
Collecting Event Remarks CROCKER EXPEDITION