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Hemilepidotus papilio Mecklenburg et al. 2016

Description

Hemilepidotus papilio (Bean, 1880).

Butterfly Sculpin. To 45 cm (17.7 in) FL (Kulik et al. 2016). Sea of Okhotsk, and Kuril Islands, and south-eastern Kamchatka to Chukchi Sea as far north as 72°29’N, 158°26’W (misprinted as 158°60’W in Mecklenburg et al. 2016), eastern Bering Sea, and Aleutian Islands west to Buldir Island (Mecklenburg et al. 2016). Benthic; marine and brackish waters (Dyldin and Orlov 2017); depth: intertidal to 320 m (1,050 ft) (min.: Bean 1880; max.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002), typically at less than 150 m (Allen and Smith 1988). Originally named Melletes papilio, a name that is still occasionally seen in the literature.

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

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References

  • Bean, T. H. (1880). Descriptions of some genera and species of Alaskan fishes. Proceedings of the United States National Museum (for 1879), 2, 353 - 359.
  • Kulik, V. V. & Gerasimov, N. N. (2016) Length-weight and length-length relationships of 11 fish species fromthe Sea of Okhotsk. Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 32, 1326 - 1328. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / jai. 13225
  • Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A., Sheiko, B. A. & Steinke, D. (2016) Pacific Arctic Marine Fishes. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Akureyri.
  • 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
  • Allen, M. J. & Smith, G. B. (1988) Atlas and zoogeography of common fishes in the Bering Sea and northeastern Pacific. NOAA Technical Report NMFS, 66.