Bajacalifornia
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| Bajacalifornia | |
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| Bajacalifornia megalops | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Alepocephaliformes |
| Family: | Alepocephalidae |
| Genus: | Bajacalifornia C. H. Townsend & Nichols, 1925 |
| Type species | |
| Bajacalifornia burragei C. H. Townsend & Nichols, 1925[1] | |
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Bajacalifornia is a genus of slickheads. It was described in 1925 by Charles Haskins Townsend and John Treadwell Nichols on the basis of Bajacalifornia burragei[2] which was discovered in 1911 during the deep sea expedition of the research vessel USS Albatross off the coast of Todos Santos Bay at the Baja California peninsula.[2] In 1952 Ichthyologist Albert Eide Parr published a revision of this genus.[3]
There are currently six recognized species in this genus:[4]
- Bajacalifornia aequatoris Miya & Markle, 1993
- Bajacalifornia arcylepis Markle & G. Krefft, 1985 (Network slickhead)
- Bajacalifornia burragei C. H. Townsend & Nichols, 1925 (Sharpchin slickhead)
- Bajacalifornia calcarata (M. C. W. Weber, 1913) (Brown slickhead)
- Bajacalifornia megalops (Lütken, 1898) (Bigeye smooth-head)
- Bajacalifornia microstoma Sazonov, 1988