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 Megalocottus platycephalus (Pallas, 1814) . Belligerent Sculpin . To 42 cm ( 16.5 in ) TL (Tokranov 1994). Sea of Japan at Peter the Great Bay to Sea of Okhotsk, and western Bering Sea, to Chukchi Sea off Chukchi Peninsula, and Beaufort Sea, off Point Barrow ( Mecklenburg et al. 2011 ), and south to Herendeen Bay, eastern Bering Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Benthic; depth: 0–120 m ( 394 ft ) ( Federov et al. 2003 ). Often entering lower reaches of rivers ( Mecklenburg et al. 2016 ).