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Bothrocara pusillum

Description

Bothrocara pusillum (Bean, 1890).

Alaska Eelpout. To 17.1 cm (6.7 in) SL (Stevenson and Anderson 2005). Eastern Bering Sea (Anderson 1994) to Oregon (Gillespie 1993). Benthic; depth: 55–642 m (180–2,106 ft) (Anderson et al. 2009). Some authors (e.g., Balushkin et al. 2011 and Fricke et al. 2020) consider this species to be valid as Bentartia pusillum (Bean, 1890).

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

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References

  • Stevenson, D. E. & Anderson, M. E. (2005) Bothrocara nyx: a new species of eelpout (Perciformes: Zoarcidae) from the Bering Sea. Zootax a, 1094, 53 - 64. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1094.1.4
  • Anderson, M. E. (1994) Systematics and osteology of the Zoarcidae (Teleostei: Perciformes). Ichthyology Bulletin of the J. L. B. Smith Institute of Ichthyology, Ichthyology, Bulletin No. 60.
  • Gillespie, G. E. (1993) An updated list of the fishes of British Columbia, and those of interest in adjacent waters, with numeric code designations. Canadian Technical Report Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 1918.
  • Anderson, M. E., Stevenson, D. E. & G. Shinohara. (2009) Systematic review of the genus Bothrocara Bean 1890 (Teleostei: Zoarcidae). Ichthyological Research, 56, 172 - 194. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10228 - 008 - 0086 - 6
  • Balushkin, A. V., Sheiko, B. A. & Fedorov, V. V. (2011) The archival collection of the Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences: Class Osteichthyes (bony fishes), Order Perciformes, Family Zoarcidae. Journal of Ichthyology, 51, 950 - 1034. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 0032945211100031
  • Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & van der Laan, R. (Eds). 2020. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, Reference. Available from: http: // researcharchive. calacademy. org / research / ichthyology / catalog / fishcatmain. asp (accessed 17 April 2021).