Bajacalifornia
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 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. In 1952 Ichthyologist Albert Eide Parr published a revision of this genus.
6 branches of this genus, most-observed first · about 6 known species
Bigeye Slickhead
speciesBajacalifornia megalops
Sharpchin Slickhead
speciesBajacalifornia burragei
Network Slickhead
speciesBajacalifornia arcylepis
Brown Slickhead
speciesBajacalifornia calcarata
Bajacalifornia aequatoris
speciesBajacalifornia aequatoris
Bajacalifornia microstoma
speciesBajacalifornia microstoma
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Bajacalifornia in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 86824.