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Blepsias bilobus Cuvier 1829

Description

Blepsias bilobus Cuvier, 1829.

Crested Sculpin. To 27 cm (10.6 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Seas of Okhotsk and Japan to northeastern Chukchi Sea (70°30’N, 165°30’W), Bering Sea, and Commander–Aleutian chain (Mecklenburg et al. 2018), to southern British Columbia near Port Hardy (Love et al. 2005). Benthic; depth: 0–285 m (936 ft) (min: Panchenko et al. 2016; Saveliev et al. 2019). Juveniles collected at the shallower depths and near surface (e.g., 60 cm, 2 ft) depth by neuston net) (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington).

Notes

Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 128, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Mecklenburg, C. W., Lynghammar, A., Johannesen, E., Byrkjedal, I., Christiansen, J. S., Dolgov, A. V., Karamushko, O. V., Mecklenburg, T. A., Moller, P. R., Steinke, D. & Wienerrolther, R. M. (2018) Marine Fishes of the Arctic Region. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Akureyrl.
  • Love, M. S., Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A. & Thorsteinson, L. K. (2005) Resource inventory of marine and estuarine fishes of the West Coast and Alaska: a checklist of North Pacific and Arctic Ocean species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon Border. United States Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Biological Resources Divition, Seattle, OCS Study MMS 2005 - 030 and USGS / NBII 2005 - 001.
  • Panchenko, V. V., Kalchugin, P. V. & Solomatov, S. F. (2016) Specification of the habitation depths and maximum sizes for the demersal fish species in the Russian territorial waters of the Sea of Japan. Journal of Ichthyology, 56, 348 - 367. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 0032945216030127
  • Saveliev, P. A., Metelyov, E. A., Sergeev, A. S. & Danilov, V. S. (2019) Species composition and distribution of benthic fishes in the elittoral of the northwestern part of the Sea of Okhotsk in summer. Journal of Ichthyology, 59, 477 - 487. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 0032945219040131