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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Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus
(Pallas, 1814)
.
Great Sculpin
. To
91.5 cm
(
36 cm
) TL (
Datsky 2017
). Seas of
Japan
and Okhotsk to Kamchatka to Commander–Aleutian Chain to northern Chukchi Sea (
70°20’N
,
163°06’W
) (
Mecklenburg
et al.
2018
) to Puget Sound, Washington (
Eschmeyer and Herald 1983
); northern California (
43°05’N
) (NWFSC-FRAM). Benthic; depth: intertidal to
825 m
(
2,707 ft
) (min.:
Eschmeyer and Herald 1983
; max.:
Kim 2001
).
Myoxocephalus ensiger
Jordan
& Starks, 1904, classified as either a subspecies or junior synonym, may be a valid species (
Mecklenburg
et al.
2007
).