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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Zootaxa
2021
2021-10-19
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Thaleichthys pacificus
(Richardson, 1837)
.
Candlefish,
Eulachon
, or Hooligan. To
25.4 cm
(
10 in
) TL (
Miller and Lea 1972
). Eastern Bering Sea from west of Saint Matthew Island and off Kuskokwim Bay and Nushagak River, and Bowers Bank, central Aleutian Islands to southern
California
(
34°N
) (
Bradburn
et al.
2011
). Near coast; depth: surface to
150 m
(
492 ft
) (
Pietsch and Orr 2019
). However, there are a number of records from much greater depths, such as
625 m
(
2,050 ft
) (
Allen and
Smith
1988
),
613 m
(
2,011 ft
) (NWFSC-FRAM),
533 m
(
1,748 ft
) (
Hoff and Britt 2003
),
552 m
(
1,811 ft
),
466 m
(
1,528 ft
), and
463 ft
(
1,519 ft
) (DFO). All of these records are from bottom trawls and while they all may represent fish that entered the nets above the maximum fishing depths the relative frequency of catches in these deep waters implies that at least some of these records are legitimate. Anadromous.