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
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Chesnonia verrucosa
(Lockington, 1880)
.
Warty Poacher
. To
20 cm
(
8 in
) TL (
Jordan
and Evermann 1898
). Bristol Bay, south-eastern Bering Sea, Alaska, Shelikof Bay, eastern Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg
et al.
(2002), to Purisima Point (
34°45’N
,
120°42’W
), central California (Personal communication: Santa Barbara Natural History Museum Fish Collection, Santa Barbara, California). Benthic; depth: intertidal to
337 m
(
1,105 ft
) (min.: Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington; max.: NWFSC-FRAM). Originally described as a species in
Occa
,
but the name
Occa
was already used for a genus of bird.
Chesnonia
was chosen as a replacement name. Some authors classify the species in
Occella
.
Further study is needed to determine its correct placement (
Sheiko and Mecklenburg 2004
).