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 Anisarchus medius (Reinhardt, 1837) . Stout Eelblenny . Variously reported to 20 cm ( 7.9 in ) TL ( Wienerroither et al. 2011 ), 28.6 cm ( 11.3 in ) ( Mecklenburg et al. 2018 ), and 30 cm ( 11.8 in ) TL (Coad in Coad and Reist 2018 ). Circumpolar in Arctic Ocean (Coad in Coad and Reist 2018 ) and southward to Sea of Okhotsk off Hokkaido , Japan ( Yamanaka and Yabe 2012 ) to south-eastern Alaska at Auke Bay ( Mecklenburg and Sheiko 2004 ), and Coco Harbor ( 55°03’N , 133°02’W ) (Personal communication: University of Alaska Fairbanks Fish Collection, Fairbanks, Alaska). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 300 m ( 984 ft ) (min.: Mecklenburg et al. 2018 ; max.: Federov et al. 2003 ). Classified by some authors in Lumpenus . Date of the original species description is 1837, although previously given as 1836 ( Mecklenburg and Sheiko 2004 ).