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Megalocottus platycephalus
Description
Megalocottus platycephalus (Pallas, 1814).
Belligerent Sculpin. To 42 cm (16.5 in) TL (Tokranov 1994). Sea of Japan at Peter the Great Bay to Sea of Okhotsk, and western Bering Sea, to Chukchi Sea off Chukchi Peninsula, and Beaufort Sea, off Point Barrow (Mecklenburg et al. 2011), and south to Herendeen Bay, eastern Bering Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Benthic; depth: 0–120 m (394 ft) (Federov et al. 2003). Often entering lower reaches of rivers (Mecklenburg et al. 2016).
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
- Cottidae
- Genus
- Megalocottus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Pallas
- Species
- platycephalus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Megalocottus platycephalus (Pallas, 1814) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- 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
- 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].
- Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A., Sheiko, B. A. & Steinke, D. (2016) Pacific Arctic Marine Fishes. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Akureyri.