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 text Zootaxa 2021 2021-10-19 5053 1 1 285 journal article 2792 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 75ffcff3-6336-4f6a-8d0b-94c082519099 1175-5326 5578008 295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 Icelus spatula Gilbert & Burke, 1912 . Spatulate Sculpin . To about 21 cm ( 7.1 in ) TL ( Tokranov and Orlov 2005 ). Circumpolar; Sea of Okhotsk ( Schmidt 1950 ), Kuril Islands ( Tokranov and Orlov 2005 ), and western North Pacific off Kamchatka ( Gilbert and Burke 1912 ), to Arctic Seas off Russia , Alaska (Chukchi and Beaufort Seas), and Canada to western Greenland and Labrador (D. W. Nelson 1984 ); Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands west to Atka Island (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington), and eastern Gulf of Alaska at Glacier Bay ( Quast and Hall 1972 ). Benthic; depth: 12–930 m ( 39–3,050 ft ) ( Mecklenburg et al. 2011 ). Ten years (1993–2002) of intensive sampling off the Kuril Islands found I. spatula at 100–300 m ( 328–984 ft ) ( Tokranov and Orlov 2005 ). Mecklenburg and Steinke (2015) note that I. spatula and I. spiniger are so similar in appearance that “the relationship [between the two taxa]…should be reevaluated.”