Triglops dorothy, a new species of sculpin (Teleostei: Scorpaeniformes: Cottidae) from the southern Sea of Okhotsk

• Main Authors: Pietsch, Theodore W., Orr, James W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Biology; Ecology; Fisheries; Arctic; Okhotsk; Pacific; Reinhardt; North Atlantic; Sakhalin
• Online Access: http://aquaticcommons.org/8994/; http://fishbull.noaa.gov/1042/pietsch.pdf; http://aquaticcommons.org/8994/1/pietsch.pdf

A new species of the cottid genus Triglops Reinhardt is described on the basis of 21 specimens collected in Aniva Bay, southern Sakhalin Island, Russia, and off Kitami, on the northern coast of Hokkaido, Japan, at depths of 73–117 m. Of the ten species of Triglops now recognized, the new species, Triglops dorothy, is most similar to T. pingeli Reinhardt, well known from the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans and throughout coastal waters of the Arctic. The new species differs from T. pingeli in a combination of morphometric and meristic characters that includes most importantly the number of dorsolateral scales; the number of oblique, scaled dermal folds below the lateral line; and the number of gill rakers.