Species: Cymatogaster aggregata

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Fishes of Puget Sound and adjacent waters
Fishes of Puget Sound and adjacent waters
Fishes of the Salish Sea

Articles:

Foraging differences between male and female harbor seals present challenges for fisheries management

A 2015 article published in the Marine Ecology Progress Series identifies intraspecific differences in diet between harbor seals in the Salish Sea, suggesting implications for marine reserve management. 

Harbor seal photographed by Andreas Trepte. Available through a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 2.5 license.
Paper: Shifts in the estuarine demersal fish community after a fishery closure in Puget Sound, Washington

This paper looks at 21 years of data on estuarine demersal fish in Puget Sound, assessing changes in population after the closure of bottom trawl fisheries.

Rock Sole (Lepidopsetta bilineata); image courtesy Freshwater and Marine Image Bank, University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Perciformes

Family

Embiotocidae

Genus

Cymatogaster

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Source:
ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.101518
Classification
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Vertebrates - Fishes - Bony Fishes - Other Bony Fishes
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Craniata - Actinopterygii - Perciformes - Embiotocidae - Cymatogaster - One of two species in the genus. Includes C. GRACILIS of the northern Channel Islands (southern California), which formerly was regarded as a distinct species (see Robins et al. 1991).
Habitat Type Description
Freshwater
Migration
false - true - false - Moves onshore-offshore seasonally.
Non-migrant
false
Locally Migrant
true
Food Comments
Opportunistic. Diet varies with size of fish and season. Young feed mostly on copepods. Adults eat a variety of small crustaceans, mollusks and algae.
Reproduction Comments
Males mature at birth; juvenile females mate soon after birth. Spawns May-August, mostly June and early July. Delayed fertilization. Gestation 5-6 months, 3-36 young are born in June or July (Morrow 1980).
Ecology Comments
Found in large schools.
Length
15
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
1996-09-25
Global Status Last Changed
1996-09-25
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
G - 200,000-2,500,000 square km (about 80,000-1,000,000 square miles) - G - This fish is abundant and widespread along the Pacific coast of North America from Bahia San Quintin, Baja California, north to Port Wrangel, Alaska.
Global Range Code
G
Global Range Description
200,000-2,500,000 square km (about 80,000-1,000,000 square miles)
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