Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
Author
Love, Milton S.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Author
Bizzarro, Joseph J.
0000-0002-2412-9357
joe.bizzarro@noaa.gov
Author
Cornthwaite, Maria
0000-0002-1528-3272
maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Author
Frable, Benjamin W.
0000-0003-4525-0671
bfrable@ucsd.edu
Author
Maslenikov, Katherine P.
0000-0003-0981-0061
love@lifesci.ucsb.edu
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Icosteus aenigmaticus
Lockington, 1880
.
Ragfish
. To
2.13 m
(
7 ft
) TL (
Clemens and Wilby 1946
) or more (
Hart 1973
). Sea of Okhotsk (
Sheiko and Fedorov 2000
), and Pacific coast of southern Honshu,
Japan
(
Suzuki and Tsukada 1994
), to Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg
et al.
2002), to Point Loma, southern California (
Miller and Lea 1972
). Larvae have been taken off northernmost Baja California (
Moser
et al.
1994
). Depth: intertidal to
1,420 m
(
4,658 ft
) (min.:
Carlisle
et al.
1960
; max.: Mecklenburg
et al.
2002). Ragfish under about
30 cm
(
12 in
) TL in shallow water or offshore near surface; adults near bottom and deep (Mecklenburg
et al.
2002). Adults occasionally found at the shoreline or in the surf evidently are out of their normal depth range and may be injured or disoriented.
Acrotus willoughbyi
Bean, 1888
, is a junior synonym; complete synonymy given in
Mecklenburg (2003)
.