Ophiodon elongatus Girard 1854

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Scorpaeniformes; Hexagrammidae; Ophiodon; Ophiodon elongatus; Yukon; Baja; Bering Sea; Fairbanks; Gulf of Alaska; Pacific; Milton; Scripps; Beaufort Sea; Kuskokwim; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5605134; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5605134

Ophiodon elongatus Girard, 1854. Lingcod. To 152 cm (60 in) TL (Wilby 1937). Just north of Alaska Peninsula (56°31.2’N, 161°00.6’W) (Personal communication: University of Alaska Fairbanks Fish Collection, Fairbanks, Alaska), Shumagin Islands, south-western Gulf of Alaska to Punta San Carlos, central Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California), and Isla Natividad (Ramírez-Valdez et al. 2015). Fall et al. (2007) reported that lingcod were taken in the eastern Bering Sea from 2003–2006 in the subsistence Pacific halibut fishery; catches were made as far north as the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Benthic; depth: intertidal to 750 m (2,460 ft) (min.: confirmed by M.L., unpubl. data; max.: NWFSC-FRAM). 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 115, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008