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Percis japonica
Description
Percis japonica (Pallas, 1769).
Dragon Poacher. To 46 cm (18.1 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2016). Seas of Japan and Okhotsk to Commander and Aleutian Islands and Bering Sea to Gulf of Alaska to Juneau, Alaska; only two Gulf of Alaska records (Mecklenburg et al. 2016). Benthic; depth: 19–770 m (63–2,526 ft) (min.: Mecklenburg et al. 2016; max.: Tokranov and Orlov 2008). Sometimes seen spelled japonicus, the specific name is correctly spelled japonica to agree in gender (feminine) with Percis.
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 131, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Agonidae
- Genus
- Percis
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Pallas
- Species
- japonica
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Percis japonica (Pallas, 1769) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A., Sheiko, B. A. & Steinke, D. (2016) Pacific Arctic Marine Fishes. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Akureyri.
- Tokranov, A. M. & Orlov, A. M. (2008) Specific features of distribution and ecology of the Japanese dog poacher Percis japonica (Agonidae) in Pacific waters off the northern Kuril Islands and southeastern Kamchatka. Journal of Ichthyology, 48, 139 - 150. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 003294520802001 x