Myoxocephalus scorpiu s (Linnaeus 1758

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Scorpaeniformes; Cottidae; Myoxocephalus; Myoxocephalus scorpiu; Beaufort Sea; Bering Sea; Chukchi; Greenland; Kamchatka; laptev; Laptev Sea; North Atlantic; Alaska; Aleutian Islands; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5605265; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FFEBFFCE98EAF84AF825318D

Myoxocephalus scorpiu s (Linnaeus, 1758). Shorthorn Sculpin or Warty Sculpin. To at least 60 cm (18.3 in) TL (Eriksen et al. 2020) or, but without documention, to 90 cm (35.4 in) TL (Coad and Reist 2004). Circumpolar; Laptev Sea to East Siberian, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas to Greenland, and northern North Atlantic, and Arctic seas of Europe; Sea of Okhotsk off south-western Kamchatka, Commander, and Aleutian Islands to Bering Sea, and northern British Columbia (Mecklenburg et al. 2016). Benthic; depth: intertidal (McAllister 1975), adults as shallow as 3 m (10 ft) or less (Ennis 1970) to 550 m (1,804 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2018). All information other than maximum length and maximum depth from Mecklenburg et al. (2002). Includes records formerly attributed to Myoxocephalus verrucosus (Bean, 1881), as a junior synonym of M. scorpius (Mecklenburg et al. 2002, 2007, 2011; Eschmeyer 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 123, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008