Ophidion scrippsae
The basketweave cusk-eel is a fish species in the family Ophidiidae. It is widespread in the eastern Pacific Ocean from Point Arguello in California, United States, to Baja California. The basketweave cusk-eel is a marine subtropical demersal fish that can be up to 28 centimetres (11 in) long. The specific name honors the journalist and philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps (1836-1932) one of the founders of the Scripps Research Institute.
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- basketweave cusk-eelPBDB
- Sits inside
- OphidionPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, parasitePBDB, for Ophidiiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Ophidiiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ophidiiformes
Time the record covers
At least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 2.58 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 3.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.
7 occurrences of Ophidion scrippsae on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
7 occurrences- Pliocene14%
- Pleistocene86%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Ophidion scrippsae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ophidion scrippsae and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Ophidion scrippsae and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
704 taxa- Myliobatis californica7 sites
- Chilara taylori6 sites
- Galeorhinus galeus6 sites
- Genyonemus lineatus6 sites
- Seriphus politus6 sites
- Triakis semifasciata6 sites
- Carcharodon carcharias5 sites
- Cymatogaster aggregata5 sites
- Engraulis mordax5 sites
- Heterodontus francisci5 sites
- Hirtoscala tincta5 sites
- Lepidogobius lepidus5 sites
- Paralichthys californicus5 sites
- Porichthys myriaster5 sites
- Porichthys notatus5 sites
- Semicossyphus pulcher5 sites
- Atherinopsis californiensis4 sites
- Cancer productus4 sites
- Carcharhinus4 sites
- Citharichthys sordidus4 sites
- Citharichthys stigmaeus4 sites
- Hirtoscala sawinae4 sites
- Isurus oxyrinchus4 sites
- Leptocottus armatus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Ophidion scrippsae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
4 references- Fish remains, mostly otoliths and teeth, from the Palos Verdes Sand (Late Pleistocene) of California3
- Fish records from the Pleistocene of southern California in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum2
- Preliminary List of the Marine Fishes and Other Vertebrate Remains from the Late Pleistocene Palos Verdes Sand Formation at Costa Mesa, Orange County, California1
- Otoliths and other fish remains from a Long Beach, California, Pliocene deposit1
Each of the 7 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Ophidion scrippsae was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ophidion scrippsae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ophidion scrippsae was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itOphidion through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hubbs 1916)