First record of the sabertooth blenny, Plagiotremus azaleus, in California with notes on its distribution along the Pacific coast of Baja California.(Statistical Data Included)

Bulletin (Southern California Academy of Sciences) | December 1, 2001| | Copyright

On 8 January 1998, while performing monthly ichthyological transects in King Harbor, Redondo Beach, California (latitude 33[degrees]50.5' N, Longitude 118[degrees]24.0' W), the senior author observed two individual sabertooth blennies, Plagiotremus azaleus, along the inside of the outer breakwater and along the Portofino reef at a depth of 1.5 m (Pondella and Stephens 1994). The water temperatures were 19.8[degrees] and 18.8[degrees]C, respectively. Since the initial sighting, sabertooth blennies were not observed again for another eight months in spite of continual ...

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