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Malacocottus zonurus Bean 1890
Description
Malacocottus zonurus Bean, 1890.
Darkfin Sculpin or Darkfin Fathead. To 39 cm (15.4 in) TL (Glubokov et al. 2019). Honshu, Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, and Bering Sea to outer coast of Washington and in Salish Sea (Stevenson 2015); reported from northern Oregon (44°53’N) (NWFSC-FRAM), but catch made before Stevenson’s revision of the genus. Benthic; depth: 30–1,172 m (98–3,844 ft) (DFO—as Malacocottus aleuticus), reported as 27– 1,980 m (89–6,494 ft) from the western Pacific (Federov et al. 2003). Malacocottus aleuticus (Smith, 1904) is a synonym (Stevenson 2015).
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 123, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Psychrolutidae
- Genus
- Malacocottus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Bean
- Species
- zonurus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Malacocottus zonurus Bean, 1890 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Glubokov, A. I., Glubokovskii, M. K. & Kovacheva, N. P. (2019) New data on soft sculpin Malacottus zonurus (Psychrolutidae) from the northwestern Bering Sea. Journal of Ichthyology, 59, 435 - 438. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 0032945219030056
- Stevenson, D. E. (2015) The validity of nominal species of Malacocottus (Teleostei: Cottiformes: Psychrolutidae) known from the eastern North Pacific with a key to the species. Copeia, 2015, 22 - 33. https: // doi. org / 10.1643 / ci- 14 - 074
- 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].