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
2021
2021-10-19
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Clinocottus acuticeps
(
Gilbert, 1896
)
.
Sharpnose Sculpin
. To
6.4 cm
(
2.5 in
) TL (
Miller and Lea 1972
). Attu Island, Aleutian Islands (
Gilbert and Burke 1912
) to Big
Sur
River, central
California
(
Miller and Lea 1972
); one record from Santa Catalina Island (
33°18’N
,
118°21’W
) (NWFSC-FRAM). Benthic; depth: intertidal to
114 m
(
373 ft
) (min.: Mecklenburg
et al.
2002; max. NWFSC-FRAM). Although previously thought to be an intertidal and shallow subtidal species, we note that the NWFSC-FRAM database records 34 individuals captured between 49 and
114 m
(
161–373 ft
). Often in brackish water, occasionally in fresh water (
Morrow 1980
). Perhaps more properly in the genus
Artedius
(Knope 2013)
.
Clinocottus
(
Oxycottus
)
acuticeps
(Buser and López 2015)
.