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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Lycodes sagittarius
McAllister, 1976
.
Archer Eelpout
. To
42.7 cm
(
16.8 in
) TL (Personal communication:
California
Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco,
California
). Beaufort Sea,
Alaska
, and Kara, and Laptev Seas (
Mecklenburg
et al.
2016
). Captures in the Chukchi Sea have not been verified (
Mecklenburg
et al.
2016
). Benthic; depth: 120 to at least
1,934 m
(
394–6,344 ft
), and perhaps to
2,151 m
(
7,055 ft
) (
Mecklenburg
et al.
2016
). Specimens with white bars and fewer vertebrae from Franklin Bay in the Canadian part of the Beaufort Sea identified as
L. sagittarius
(illustrated in
McAllister
et al.
1981
; Mecklenburg
et al.
2002) are
L. marisalbi
.
Lycodes sagittarius
consists of uniformly brown specimens only (
Møller 2000
).
Lycodes sagittarius
may be a junior synonym of
Lycodes marisalbi
Knipowitsch, 1906
(
Mecklenburg
et al.
2018
).