Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus

• 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; Cottidae; Myoxocephalus; Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus; Yukon; Okhotsk; Chukchi Sea; Milton; Beaufort Sea; Chukchi; Kamchatka; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5605259; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5605259

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). 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