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Ruscarius meanyi Jordan & Starks 1895

Description

Ruscarius meanyi Jordan & Starks, 1895.

Puget Sound Sculpin. To 5.9 cm (2.3 in) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Unimak Pass (54°12’N, 165°22’W), western Gulf of Alaska (Maslenikov et al. 2013) to Cordell Bank, northern California (Personal communication: California Academy of Sciences Fish Collection, San Francisco, California). Many larvae have been taken in the Bering Sea (Maslenikov et al. 2013). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 82 m (269 ft) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983; max.: Peden 1972). Classified by some authors in Artedius.

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 126, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Jordan, D. S. & Starks, E. C. (1895) The fishes of Puget Sound. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 5, 785 - 855.
  • 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
  • Peden, A. E. (1972) New records of sculpins (Cottidae) from the coasts of British Columbia and Washington. Canadian Field- Naturalist, 86, 168 - 169.