Pleurogrammus monopterygius
Description
Pleurogrammus monopterygius (Pallas, 1810).
Atka Mackerel or Northern Atka Mackerel. To at least 54 cm (21.3 in) TL (Robert Lauth, pers. comm to M.L.). Sea of Japan (Antonenko et al. 2003) and Sea of Okhotsk (Chereshnev and Nazarkin 2004) to Commander–Aleutian chain, and northern Bering Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Bering Strait (Mecklenburg et al. 2011) to Redondo Beach, southern California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983); rare in eastern North Pacific south of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Depth: lower intertidal to 720 m (2,362 ft) (Hoff and Britt 2003). However, this latter is a record from a trawl-caught fish that might have been taken in midwater. Following Mecklenburg and Eschmeyer (2003), we treat Pleurogrammus azonus Jordan & Metz, 1913, a western Pacific form sometimes classified as a junior synonym of P. monopterygius (e.g., Nelson 1994, Mecklenburg et al. 2002), as a distinct species with common name Southern Atka Mackerel or Arabesque Greenling. Molecular evidence recently presented by Crow et al. (2004) supports the existence of two distinct species.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Hexagrammidae
- Genus
- Pleurogrammus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Pallas
- Species
- monopterygius
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pleurogrammus monopterygius (Pallas, 1810) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Antonenko, D. V., Kalchugin, P. V., Izmyatinskii, D. V. & Kim, L. N. (2003) On the occurrence of cold-water species of fish, rare for Peter the Great Bay (the Sea of Japan). Journal of Ichthyology, 43, 54 - 57.
- Chereshnev, I. A. & Nazarkin, M. V. (2004) The first finding of the Atka mackerel Pleurogrammus monopterygius (Scorpaeniformes: Hexagrammidae) in the Tauiskaya Bay (northern part of the Sea of Okhotsk). Journal of Ichthyology, 44, 307 - 311.
- Mecklenburg, C. W., Moller, P. R. & Steinke, D. (2011) Biodiversity of arctic marine fishes: taxonomy and zoogeography. Marine Biodiversity, 41, 109 - 140. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 12526 - 010 - 0070 - z
- Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
- Hoff, G. R. & Britt, L. L. (2003) The 2002 Eastern Bering Sea upper continental slope survey of groundfish and invertebrate resources. National Marine Fisheries Service Technical Memorandum, NMFS-AFSC- 141.
- Mecklenburg, C. W. & Eschmeyer, W. N. (2003) Family Hexagrammidae Gill 1889 - greenlings. California Academy of Sciences, Annotated Checklists of Fishes, No. 3.
- Nelson, J. S. (1994) Fishes of the World. John Wiley and Sons, New York.
- Crow, K. D., Kanamoto, Z. & Bernardi, G. (2004) Molecular phylogeny of the hexagrammid fishes using a multi-locus approach. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 32, 986 - 997. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2004.03.012