Myoxocephalus scorpiu s (Linnaeus 1758
Description
Myoxocephalus scorpiu s (Linnaeus, 1758).
Shorthorn Sculpin or Warty Sculpin. To at least 60 cm (18.3 in) TL (Eriksen et al. 2020) or, but without documention, to 90 cm (35.4 in) TL (Coad and Reist 2004). Circumpolar; Laptev Sea to East Siberian, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas to Greenland, and northern North Atlantic, and Arctic seas of Europe; Sea of Okhotsk off south-western Kamchatka, Commander, and Aleutian Islands to Bering Sea, and northern British Columbia (Mecklenburg et al. 2016). Benthic; depth: intertidal (McAllister 1975), adults as shallow as 3 m (10 ft) or less (Ennis 1970) to 550 m (1,804 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2018). All information other than maximum length and maximum depth from Mecklenburg et al. (2002). Includes records formerly attributed to Myoxocephalus verrucosus (Bean, 1881), as a junior synonym of M. scorpius (Mecklenburg et al. 2002, 2007, 2011; Eschmeyer 2005).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Cottidae
- Genus
- Myoxocephalus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Species
- scorpiu
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Myoxocephalus scorpiu (Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Eriksen, E., Benzik, A. N., Dolgov, A. V., Skjoldal, H. R., Vihtakari, M., Johannesen, E., Prokhorova, T. A., Keulder-Stenvik, F., Prokochuk, I. & Strand, S. (2020) Diet and trophic structure of fishes in the Barents Sea: The Norwegian-Russian program " Year of stomachs " 2015 - Establishing a baseline. Progress in Oceanography, 183, 102262 https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. pocean. 2019.102262
- Coad, B. W. & Reist, J. D. (2004) Annotated list of the arctic marine fishes of Canada. Canadian Manuscript Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 2674.
- Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A., Sheiko, B. A. & Steinke, D. (2016) Pacific Arctic Marine Fishes. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Akureyri.
- McAllister, D. E. (1975) Ecology of the marine fishes of Arctic Canada. Proceedings of the Circumpolar Conference on Northern Ecology. National Research Council of Canada, pp. 49 - 65.
- Ennis, G. P. (1970) Reproduction and associated behaviour in the shorthorn sculpin, Myoxocephalus scorpius in Newfoundland waters. Journal of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 27, 2037 - 2045.
- 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.
- Eschmeyer, W. N. (Ed.). (2005) Catalog of Fishes Online. California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. www. calacademy. org / research / ichthyology