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Paraliparis cephalus Gilbert 1892

Description

Paraliparis cephalus Gilbert, 1892.

Swellhead Snailfish. To 11 cm (4.3 in) SL (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington). Vicinity of Commander Islands (Sheiko and Fedorov 2000); northern Bering Sea (to 59°25’N, 178°07’W) and western Aleutian Islands near Buldir Island (52°22’N, 175°36’E) (Maslenikov et al. 2013) and southern Bering Sea off Unalaska Island, and Shelikof Strait, western Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to northern Baja California (32°40’N, 117°35’W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Depth: 242–1,799 m (794–5,902 ft) (min.: NWFSC-FRAM; max.: Sheiko and Fedorov 2000).

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

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References

  • 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.]
  • 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