Careproctus gilberti Burke 1912

• 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; Liparidae; Careproctus; Careproctus gilberti; Yukon; Bering Sea; Milton; Morro; Beaufort Sea; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5605476; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5605476

Careproctus gilberti Burke, 1912. Smalldisk Snailfish. To 12.7 cm (5 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Western Aleutian Islands (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) and eastern Bering Sea (Hoff and Britt 2003) to central California north of Point Conception at about 35°10’N off Morro Bay (Townsend and Nichols 1925), and perhaps to southern California (33°44.9’N, 120°12’W) (Daniel Pondella, pers. comm. to M.L.). Depth: 55–2,040 m (180– 6,691 ft) (min.: Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington; confirmed by Katherine Maslenikov; max.: Drazen et al. 2015). The southern limit is the collection locality for the type specimen of Liparis osborni Townsend & Nichols, 1925, a junior synonym of C. gilberti (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). 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 136, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008