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Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus
Description
Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus (Pallas, 1814).
Great Sculpin. To 91.5 cm (36 cm) TL (Datsky 2017). Seas of Japan and Okhotsk to Kamchatka to Commander–Aleutian Chain to northern Chukchi Sea (70°20’N, 163°06’W) (Mecklenburg et al. 2018) to Puget Sound, Washington (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983); northern California (43°05’N) (NWFSC-FRAM). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 825 m (2,707 ft) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983; max.: Kim 2001). Myoxocephalus ensiger Jordan & Starks, 1904, classified as either a subspecies or junior synonym, may be a valid species (Mecklenburg et al. 2007).
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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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Cottidae
- Genus
- Myoxocephalus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Pallas
- Species
- polyacanthocephalus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus (Pallas, 1814) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Datsky, A. V. (2017) Biological features of the common fish species in Olyutorsky-Navarin Region and the adjacent waters of the Bering Sea: 4. Family sculpins (Cottidae). Journal of Ichthyology, 57, 341 - 353. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 0032945217030031
- 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.
- Eschmeyer, W. N. & Herald, E. S. (1983) A Field Guide to Pacific Coast Fishes of North America from the Gulf of Alaska to Baja California. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.
- Kim, S. T. (2001) Winter migrations of shelf fish to the continental slope of the southwestern Sakhalin. Journal of Ichthyology, 41, 564 - 574.
- Mecklenburg, C. W., Stein, D. L., Sheiko, B. A., Chernova, N. V., Mecklenburg, T. A. & Holladay, B. A. (2007) Russian-American long-term census of the Arctic: benthic fishes trawled in the Chukchi Sea and Bering Sea, August 2004. Northwestern Naturalist, 88, 168 - 187. https: // doi. org / 10.1898 / 1051 - 1733 (2007) 88 [168: rlcota] 2.0. co; 2