. Bulletin - Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science. Fig. 1. Photograph of Pacific Bearded Brotula collected on 24 July 2001 off Point Loma, San Diego County by F/V Stephanie D. CAS uncatalogued. Barton 1949; Allen and Robertson 1994). In a review of the Central Eastern Pacific (or Eastern Tropical Pacific) Ophidiidae (Lea 1995), the genus Brotula was considered to belong in the family Brotulidae and as a result, the two Eastern Pacific species were not included in this summary. Nielsen et al. (1999), in their treatment of ophidiiform fishes of the world, included the genus Brotula w
. Bulletin - Southern California Academy of Sciences. Science. Fig. 1. Photograph of Pacific Bearded Brotula collected on 24 July 2001 off Point Loma, San Diego County by F/V Stephanie D. CAS uncatalogued. Barton 1949; Allen and Robertson 1994). In a review of the Central Eastern Pacific (or Eastern Tropical Pacific) Ophidiidae (Lea 1995), the genus Brotula was considered to belong in the family Brotulidae and as a result, the two Eastern Pacific species were not included in this summary. Nielsen et al. (1999), in their treatment of ophidiiform fishes of the world, included the genus Brotula within the family Ophidiidae as one of 4 subfamilies (Brotulinae, Brotulotaeniinae, Ophidiinae, and Neobythitinae). Most current workers follow this system of classificadon ( Nelson 2006). Nonetheless, the interrelationships of ophidiiform fishes, in a number of cases, are problematic. The Pacific Bearded Brotula differs from other species of ophidiiform fishes known from California in having barbels present on the snout and chin (6 on snout and 6 on chin; characteristic of genus Brotula). Barbels are absent on other California ophidiiform fishes. The pelvic fins of Brotula, as 2 elongate rays, are inserted anteriorly on the body at about the level of the preopercle, well behind the eye. The pelvic fins, as a pair of filamentous rays, in Chilara taylori and Ophidion scrippsae (Basketweave Cusk-eel) (the two ophidiids with which it would most likely be confused), are inserted on the isthmus vertically under the eye. A list of fishes of the Order Ophidiiformes known from California waters is given in Table 2. The oceanic climate of the eastern North Pacific was cold during the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO) cold regime of the 1960s and 1970s to 1981, very warm during the 1982-84 El Nino, warm during the PDO warm regime from 1985 to the cool La Nina of 1988-89, warm during the warm regime period of 1990-98 (the warmest of the century. Fig. 2. Line drawing of Pacific Bearded
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