Heterodontus francisci (Girard, 1855)

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 13

Heterodontus francisci (Girard, 1855) .

Horn Shark. To at least 121 cm ( 47.6 in) TL (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). The widely reported maximum length of 122 cm ( 48 in) TL (e.g., Miller and Lea 1972) is based on a statement in Roedel and Ripley (1950) that this species reached a maximum length of “about 4 feet [= 122 cm].” Bolinas, northern California (Personal communication: Santa Barbara Natural History Museum Fish Collection, Santa Barbara, California) to Gulf of California ( Miller and Lea 1972); reported to Colombia (Mejîa-Falla et al. 2007), probably Ecuador ( Ebert 2003), and Peru ( Cornejo et al. 2015) . Benthic; depth: intertidal to 201 m ( 660 ft) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California).