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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Hemilepidotus papilio
(
Bean, 1880
)
.
Butterfly Sculpin
. To
45 cm
(
17.7 in
) FL (
Kulik
et al.
2016
). Sea of Okhotsk, and Kuril Islands, and south-eastern
Kamchatka
to Chukchi Sea as far north as
72°29’N
,
158°26’W
(misprinted as
158°60’W
in
Mecklenburg
et al.
2016
), eastern Bering Sea, and Aleutian Islands west to Buldir Island (
Mecklenburg
et al.
2016
). Benthic; marine and brackish waters (
Dyldin and Orlov 2017
); depth: intertidal to
320 m
(
1,050 ft
) (min.:
Bean 1880
; max.: Mecklenburg
et al.
2002), typically at less than
150 m
(
Allen and
Smith
1988
). Originally named
Melletes papilio
, a name that is still occasionally seen in the literature.