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Microcottus sellaris

Description

Microcottus sellaris (Gilbert, 1896).

Brightbelly Sculpin. To 17 cm (6.7 in) TL (Tokranov 2013). Northern Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, Kuril Islands to Commander–Aleutian Chain, to northern Chukchi Sea (as far north as 71°30’N, 167°06’W) (Mecklenburg et al. 2016), eastern Bering Sea (Lauth and Nichol 2013); two records from Prince William Sound, Gulf of Alaska (Johnson et al. 2012). Benthic; marine and brackish waters (Dyldin and Orlov 2017); depth: intertidal to 60 m (197 ft) (min.: Mecklenburg et al. 2016; max.: Federov et al. 2003).

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 123, 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.
  • Tokranov, A. M. (2013) Specific features of distribution and size indices of four poorly studied species of sculpins (Cottidae) in the Okhotsk Sea waters off Kamchatka. Journal of Ichthyology, 53, 404 - 415. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 0032945213040085
  • Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A., Sheiko, B. A. & Steinke, D. (2016) Pacific Arctic Marine Fishes. Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Akureyri.
  • 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.
  • Johnson, S. W., Neff, A. D., Thedinga, J. F., Lindeberg, M. R. & Maselko, J. M. (2012) Atlas of nearshore fishes of Alaska: a synthesis of marine surveys from 1998 to 2011. National Marine Fisheries Service Technical Memorandum, NMFS-AFSC- 239.
  • Dyldin, Yu. V. & Orlov, A. M. (2017) Ichthyofauna of fresh and brackish waters of Sakhalin Island: an annotated list with taxonomic comments: 3. Gadidae - Cruptacanthodidae families. Journal of Ichthyology, 57, 53 - 88. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 0032945217010039
  • 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].