California Grunion

Leuresthes tenuis (Ayres 1860)

Leuresthes tenuis (California Grunion) is a species of ray-finned fishes in the family New World silversides. Individuals are known to live for 8 years and can grow to 19.0 cm.

EOL has data for 13 attributes, including:

parasitized by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002445
- Comment: Auto-added during harvest #37. A human needs to edit this.
- Attribution: Global Biotic Interactions
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Lacistorhynchus tenuis (Van Beneden 1858) Pintner 1913
body size
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBA_VT0100005
- Definition: The size of a multicellular organism
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19 cm
geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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United States
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/6252001
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habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
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neritic pelagic zone
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000032
- Definition: The neritic epipelagic zone biome comprises the marine water column above a continental shelf.
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has ectoparasite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002633
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Bomolochus cuneatus Fraser 1920
has endoparasite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002635
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Leuresthes tenuis (Ayres 1860) (California grunion)
life span
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0000050
- Definition: A time quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearer's expected maximum age.
- Comment: Ontology Description: http://obofoundry.org/wiki/index.php/PATO:Main_Page Ontology Source: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/pato.owl
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8 years
Total length
- URI: http://purl.org/obo/owlATOL_0001660
- Definition: length from the tip of the snout to the tip of the longer lobe of the caudal fin, usually measured with the lobes compressed along the midline. It is a straight-line measure, not measured over the curve of the body
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19.0 cm
total life span
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/VT_0001661
- Definition: The full period of time from birth to death of an organism.
- Comment: Ontology Description: http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/VT
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8 years
water depth
- URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/verbatimDepth
- Definition: The depth of seawater at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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18 m

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of California grunion. View this species on GBIF