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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Leptagonus decagonus
(Bloch & Schneider, 1801)
.
Atlantic Poacher
. To
25 cm
(
9.8 in
) TL (
Coad and Reist 2004
) or
27 cm
(
10.6 in
) TL as recorded from a video survey: “Fish lengths were estimated using the software ImageJ…for all fishes that swam along the seafloor in plane with the camera reference lasers, providing scale for measurements”
Devine
et al.
(2019)
. Nearly circumpolar (
Mecklenburg
et al.
2011
); no records from East Siberian and western Chukchi Seas; eastern Chukchi and Beaufort Seas eastwards around Arctic to Laptev Sea; isolated population in Sea of Okhotsk (
Sheiko and Mecklenburg 2004
), and Bering Sea to Aleutian Islands with southernmost record in eastern Pacific Ocean in
Bristol
Bay,
Alaska
, and Unalaska Island (
Mecklenburg
et al.
2016
). Benthic; depth:
0–820 m
(
72,690 ft
) (min.:
Federov
et al.
2003
; max.: Coad in
Coad and Reist 2018
).