Oxylebius pictus Gill 1862

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Scorpaeniformes; Hexagrammidae; Oxylebius; Oxylebius pictus; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Yukon; Baja; Bering Sea; Anchorage; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; Milton; Pablo; Beaufort Sea; Kachemak; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5605119; https://zenodo.org/record/5605119

Oxylebius pictus Gill, 1862. Painted Greenling . To 25.4 cm (10 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Kachemak Bay (Abookire 2002), and Prince William Sound (Orsi et al. 1991), northern Gulf of Alaska to Punta San Pablo (27°14’N, 114°29’W), southern Baja California (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California). Existing statements of range to Bering Sea are based on older reports that have been discounted (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Although the Kachemak Bay report lacks a voucher specimen, this species is distinctive and not likely to be misidentified. Benthic; depth: intertidal to 249 m (816 ft) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983; max.: Love et al. 2005). : 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 114, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008 : {"references": ["Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.", "Abookire, A. A. (2002) Chapter 6. Benthic and intertidal fishes in Kachemak Bay. In: Piatt, J. F. (Ed.), Response of Seabirds to Fluctuations in Forage Fish Density. Final report to Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council (Restoration Project 00163 M) and Minerals Management Service (Alaska OCS Region). Alaska Science Center, United States Geological Survey, Anchorage, p. 48 - 54.", "Orsi, J. A., Gish, R. K. & Wing, B. L. (1991) Northern range extensions of four nearshore marine fishes in Alaska. Canadian Field-Naturalist, 105, 82 - 86.", "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.", "Love, M. S., Mecklenburg, C. W., Mecklenburg, T. A. & Thorsteinson, L. K. (2005) Resource inventory of marine and estuarine fishes of the West Coast and Alaska: a checklist of North Pacific and Arctic Ocean species from Baja California to the Alaska-Yukon Border. United States Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Biological Resources Divition, Seattle, OCS Study MMS 2005 - 030 and USGS / NBII 2005 - 001."]}