Blepsias cirrhosus
Description
Blepsias cirrhosus (Pallas, 1814).
Silverspotted Sculpin or Silverspotted Sea Raven. To 26 cm (10.2 in) TL (Pietsch and Orr 2019). Seas of Okhotsk and Japan to western Bering Sea near Cape Olyutorskiy (59°44’N, 170°20’E) (Personal communication: Russian Academy of Science Ichthyological Collecton at Saint Petersberg), and Commander–Aleutian Chain, and Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea, Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), to San Simeon, central California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Benthic; marine and brackish waters (Dyldin and Orlov 2017); depth; intertidal to 97 m (318 ft) (min.: Bolin 1944; max.: Panchenko et al. 2016). Reported to 150 m (492 ft) (Sheiko and Fedorov 2000), but voucher or other documentation lacking (Love et al. 2005).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Hemitripteridae
- Genus
- Blepsias
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Pallas
- Species
- cirrhosus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Blepsias cirrhosus (Pallas, 1814) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Pietsch, T. W. & Orr, J. W. (2019) Fishes of the Salish Sea. University of Washington Press, Seattle.
- Dyldin, Yu. V. & Orlov, A. M. (2017) Ichthyofauna of fresh and brackish waters of Sakhalin Island: an annotated list with taxonomic comments: 3. Gadidae - Cruptacanthodidae families. Journal of Ichthyology, 57, 53 - 88. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 0032945217010039
- Bolin, R. L. (1944) A review of the marine cottid fishes of California. Stanford Ichthyological Bulletin, 3, 1 - 135.
- Panchenko, V. V., Kalchugin, P. V. & Solomatov, S. F. (2016) Specification of the habitation depths and maximum sizes for the demersal fish species in the Russian territorial waters of the Sea of Japan. Journal of Ichthyology, 56, 348 - 367. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 0032945216030127
- Sheiko, B. A. & Fedorov, V. V. (2000) Chapter 1. Class Cephalaspidomorphi - Lampreys. Class Chondrichthyes - Cartilaginous fishes. Class Holocephali - Chimaeras. Class Osteichthyes - Bony fishes. In: Catalog of Vertebrates of Kamchatka and Adjacent Waters. Kamchatsky Pechatny Dvor, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, pp. 7 - 69 [In Russian.]
- 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.