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CAS-ICH 5472 Myctophum affine   [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 crew; Zaca Field Number TCE 16-III-32B Date Collected 16 Mar 1932 
Continent/Ocean Pacific Ocean / NE Pacific Country Mexico State Baja California County
Water Body Drainage Island Group Island
Depth Width Salinity Gear About light.
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).
Acc. Number Specimen Remarks
Collecting Event Remarks Templeton Crocker Exped.