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Psychrolutes paradoxus Gunther 1861
Description
Psychrolutes paradoxus Günther, 1861.
Tadpole Sculpin or Tadpole Fathead. To 7 cm (2.8 in) TL (DFO). Seas of Okhotsk, and Japan to Norton Sound, Bering Sea, and Commander–Aleutian Chain to Puget Sound, Washington (Mecklenburg et al. 2002); Oregon (45°22’N) (NWFSC-FRAM). Benthic; depth: 3–419 m (10–1,374 ft) (min.: Dinnel et al. 1990; max.: NWFSC-FRAM). A record from 1,100 m (3,609 ft) (Fedorov 2000) was later determined to represent Psychrolutes phrictus Stein & Bond, 1978 (Love et al. 2005).
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 125, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Psychrolutidae
- Genus
- Psychrolutes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gunther
- Species
- paradoxus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Psychrolutes paradoxus Gunther, 1861 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Dinnel, P. A., Armstrong, J. A., Lauth, R. R., Larsen, K. & Armstrong, D. A. (1990) Fish predation on Dungeness crab in Padilla Bay, Washington. National Estuarine Research Reserve. Padilla Bay Reprint Series, No. 14.
- Fedorov, V. V. (2000) Species composition, distribution and habitation depths of the northern Kuril Islands fish and fish like species. In: Kotenev, B. N. (Ed.), Commercial and Biological Studies of Fishes in the Pacific Aaters of the Kuril Islands and Adjacent Areas of the Okhotsk and Bering Seas in 1992 - 1998: Collected Papers. VNIRO Publishing, pp. 7 - 41 [In Russian.]
- Stein, D. L. & Bond, C. E. (1978) A new deep-sea fish from the eastern North Pacific, Psychrolutes phrictus (Pisces: Cottidae [Psychrolutinae]). Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Contributions in Science, 296.
- Love, M. S., Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A. & Thorsteinson, L. K. (2005) Resource inventory of marine and estuarine fishes of the West Coast and Alaska: a checklist of North Pacific and Arctic Ocean species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon Border. United States Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Biological Resources Divition, Seattle, OCS Study MMS 2005 - 030 and USGS / NBII 2005 - 001.