Psychrolutes phrictus Stein & Bond 1978
Description
Psychrolutes phrictus Stein & Bond, 1978.
Blob Sculpin or Giant Blob Sculpin. To about 70 cm (27.5 in) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Sea of Okhotsk and Pacific side of Honshu, Japan to Commander Islands, and western Bering Sea north to Cape Navarin (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), to Bering Sea as far northward as 59°20’N, 178°20’W (Maslenikov et al. 2013) to Pacific Ocean off San Diego, southern California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983); one record from off the coast of Guerrero, Mexico (17°45’N, 101°59’W) (Aguirre-Villaseñor et al. 2016). Benthic; depth: 114–2,800 m (374–9,186 ft) (min.: DFO; max.: Stein and Bond 1978). Although washed up on a beach once at Adak Island in Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) and caught once in shallow water off Westport, Washington (Schoener and Fluharty in Wooster and Fluharty 1985), these are rare records for this bottom-dwelling, deepwater species, and likely reflect abnormal circumstances. Coad in Coad and Reist (2018) report on two captures from the Canadian Beaufort Sea (CMNFI 2013-0029) and CMNFI 2013-0030).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Psychrolutidae
- Genus
- Psychrolutes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Stein & Bond
- Species
- phrictus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Psychrolutes phrictus Stein, 1978 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- 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.
- Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
- Maslenikov, K. P., Orr, J. W. & Stevenson, D. W. (2013) Range extensions and significant distributional records for eighty-two species of fishes in Alaskan marine waters. Northwestern Naturalist, 94, 1 - 21. https: // doi. org / 10.1898 / 12 - 23.1
- Aguirre-Villasenor, H. E., Cruz-Acevedo, E. & Salas-Singh, C. (2016) New eastern Pacific Ocean record of the rare deep-water fish, Psychrolutes phrictus (Scorpaeniformes: Psychrolutidae). Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad, 87, 11141 - 1145. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. rmb. 2016.06.013
- Wooster, W. & Fluharty, D. L. (Eds.). (1985) El Nino North: Nino Effects in the Eastern Subarctic Pacific Ocean. Washington Sea Grant Program, University of Washington, Seattle.
- Coad, B. W. & Reist, J. D. (Eds.). (2018) Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada. University of Toronto Press, Toronto.