Published October 19, 2021 | Version v1
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Gymnocanthus tricuspis

Description

Gymnocanthus tricuspis (Reinhardt, 1830).

Arctic Staghorn Sculpin. To 29.9 cm (11.8 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Circumpolar; Beaufort and Chukchi Seas (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Saint Matthew Island (60°18.6’N, 169°19.8’W), eastern Bering Sea (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington). A record from Oregon (44°02’N) (NWFSC-FRAM) is without a voucher specimen. Benthic; depth: about 2 m (7 ft) to 556 m (1,824 ft) (min.: Ennis 1968; max.: Coad in Coad and Reist 2018).

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 121, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Ennis, G. P. (1968) Occurrences of the staghorn sculpin (Gymnocanthus tricuspis) in Newfoundland waters. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 25, 2729 - 2731.
  • Coad, B. W. & Reist, J. D. (Eds.). (2018) Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada. University of Toronto Press, Toronto.