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Icelus spiniger Gilbert 1896

Description

Icelus spiniger Gilbert, 1896.

Thorny Sculpin. To 28 cm (11 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Sea of Okhotsk to Commander–Aleutian Chain, and Bering Sea to Cape Navarin, western Bering Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), to northern Chukchi Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2015), and eastern Bering Sea at least as far northward as 61°20’N (Lauth and Nichol 2013), to La Perouse Bank, southern British Columbia (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Benthic; depth: 30–770 m (98–2,526 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Mecklenburg et al. (2016) report that an undescribed Icelus, closely related to I. spiniger, likely lives at least in the northern Bering and Chukchi Seas.

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

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References

  • Gilbert, C. H. (1896) Appendix 6. The ichthyological collections of the steamer Albatross during the years 1890 and 1891. Report of the United States Fish Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries for 1893, 19, 393 - 476.
  • Mecklenburg, C. W. & Anderson, M. E. (2015) Reassessment of multiple species of Gymnelus (Teleostei: Zoarcidae) in Pacific Arctic and boreal regions. Zootaxa, 3948, 263 - 278. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3964.2.11
  • Lauth, R. R. & Nichol, D. G. (2013) Results of the 2012 eastern Bering Sea continental shelf bottom trawl survey of groundfish and invertebrate resources. National Marine Fisheries Service Technical Memorandum, NMFS- AFSC- 256.
  • Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A., Sheiko, B. A. & Steinke, D. (2016) Pacific Arctic Marine Fishes. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Akureyri.