Anisarchus medius
Description
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).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Stichaeidae
- Genus
- Anisarchus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Perciformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Reinhardt
- Species
- medius
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Anisarchus medius (Reinhardt, 1837) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Wienerroither, R., Johanneson, E., Langoy, H., Erikson, K. B., de Lange Wenneck, T., Hoines, A. & Bjelland, O. (2011) Atlas of the Barents Sea fishes. IMR / PINRO Joint Report Series, 1 - 2011.
- 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.
- Coad, B. W. & Reist, J. D. (Eds.). (2018) Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada. University of Toronto Press, Toronto.
- Yamanaka, T. & Yabe, M. (2012). The records of a stichaeid fish, Anisarchus medius, from Japan. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 59, 69 - 74.
- Mecklenburg, C. W. & Sheiko, B. A. (2004) Family Stichaeidae Gill 1864 - pricklebacks. California Academy of Sciences, Annotated Checklists of Fishes, No. 35.
- Federov, V. V., Chereshnev, I. A., Nazarkin, M. V., Shestakov, A. V. & Volubuev, V. V. (2003) Catalog of Marine and Freshwater Fishes of the Northern Part of the Sea of Okhotsk. Vladivostok, Dolnauka [In Russian].