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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Rimicola muscarum
(Meek & Pierson, 1895)
.
Kelp Clingfish
. To
7 cm
(
2.8 in
) TL (
Eschmeyer and Herald 1983
). Glacier Bay, south-eastern
Alaska
(Mecklenburg
et al.
2002) to Punta Baja, northern
Baja California
(Watson in
Moser 1996
). Also reported from Kachemak Bay, northern
Gulf
of
Alaska
(
Abookire 2002
): the arrival of
R. muscarum
in Kachemak Bay coincided with arrival of large quantities of floating bull kelp (
Nereocystis
) which may have been their mode of travel (
Love
et al.
2005
). Benthic; depth: intertidal to
5 m
(
16 ft
) (min.:
Miller and Lea 1972
; max.: Shelly Moore, pers. comm. to M.L.). The Glacier Bay specimen (Personal communication: University of
Alaska
Fairbanks Fish Collection, Fairbanks,
Alaska
) may have been lost, as a different fish is now in the jar (
Love
et al.
2005
).