Leptagonus decagonus

• 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; Agonidae; Leptagonus; Leptagonus decagonus; Beaufort Sea; Bering Sea; Chukchi; laptev; Laptev Sea; Alaska; Aleutian Islands; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5605381; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FF10FF3498EAFA32FFC536D3

Leptagonus decagonus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801). Atlantic Poacher . To 25 cm (9.8 in) TL (Coad and Reist 2004) or 27 cm (10.6 in) TL as recorded from a video survey: “Fish lengths were estimated using the software ImageJ…for all fishes that swam along the seafloor in plane with the camera reference lasers, providing scale for measurements” Devine et al. (2019). Nearly circumpolar (Mecklenburg et al. 2011); no records from East Siberian and western Chukchi Seas; eastern Chukchi and Beaufort Seas eastwards around Arctic to Laptev Sea; isolated population in Sea of Okhotsk (Sheiko and Mecklenburg 2004), and Bering Sea to Aleutian Islands with southernmost record in eastern Pacific Ocean in Bristol Bay, Alaska, and Unalaska Island (Mecklenburg et al. 2016). Benthic; depth: 0–820 m (72,690 ft) (min.: Federov et al. 2003; max.: Coad in Coad and Reist 2018). 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 130, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008