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Anisarchus medius

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Description

Anisarchus medius (Reinhardt, 1837).

Stout Eelblenny. Variously reported to 20 cm (7.9 in) TL (Wienerroither et al. 2011), 28.6 cm (11.3 in) (Mecklenburg et al. 2018), and 30 cm (11.8 in) TL (Coad in Coad and Reist 2018). Circumpolar in Arctic Ocean (Coad in Coad and Reist 2018) and southward to Sea of Okhotsk off Hokkaido, Japan (Yamanaka and Yabe 2012) to south-eastern Alaska at Auke Bay (Mecklenburg and Sheiko 2004), and Coco Harbor (55°03’N, 133°02’W) (Personal communication: University of Alaska Fairbanks Fish Collection, Fairbanks, Alaska). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 300 m (984 ft) (min.: Mecklenburg et al. 2018; max.: Federov et al. 2003). Classified by some authors in Lumpenus. Date of the original species description is 1837, although previously given as 1836 (Mecklenburg and Sheiko 2004).

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

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FF28FF0C98EAFA60F91936AC

Is part of
Journal article: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 (URL)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FF87FFAEFF91FFB5987DFFF2FA413005 (URL)
Journal article: http://zoobank.org/295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398 (URL)
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https://sibils.text-analytics.ch/search/collections/plazi/03BE87D6FF28FF0C98EAFA60F91936AC (URL)
https://www.gbif.org/species/191884394 (URL)
https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/2792/taxon/03BE87D6FF28FF0C98EAFA60F91936AC.taxon (URL)

Biodiversity

Family
Stichaeidae
Genus
Anisarchus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Perciformes
Phylum
Chordata
Scientific name authorship
Reinhardt
Species
medius
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Anisarchus medius (Reinhardt, 1837) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021

References

  • Wienerroither, R., Johanneson, E., Langoy, H., Erikson, K. B., de Lange Wenneck, T., Hoines, A. & Bjelland, O. (2011) Atlas of the Barents Sea fishes. IMR / PINRO Joint Report Series, 1 - 2011.
  • Mecklenburg, C. W., Lynghammar, A., Johannesen, E., Byrkjedal, I., Christiansen, J. S., Dolgov, A. V., Karamushko, O. V., Mecklenburg, T. A., Moller, P. R., Steinke, D. & Wienerrolther, R. M. (2018) Marine Fishes of the Arctic Region. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Akureyrl.
  • Coad, B. W. & Reist, J. D. (Eds.). (2018) Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada. University of Toronto Press, Toronto.
  • Yamanaka, T. & Yabe, M. (2012). The records of a stichaeid fish, Anisarchus medius, from Japan. Japanese Journal of Ichthyology, 59, 69 - 74.
  • Mecklenburg, C. W. & Sheiko, B. A. (2004) Family Stichaeidae Gill 1864 - pricklebacks. California Academy of Sciences, Annotated Checklists of Fishes, No. 35.
  • Federov, V. V., Chereshnev, I. A., Nazarkin, M. V., Shestakov, A. V. & Volubuev, V. V. (2003) Catalog of Marine and Freshwater Fishes of the Northern Part of the Sea of Okhotsk. Vladivostok, Dolnauka [In Russian].