Liparis gibbus Bean 1881

• 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; Plantae; Tracheophyta; Liliopsida; Asparagales; Orchidaceae; Liparis; Liparis gibbus; Arctic; Yukon; Bering Sea; Chukchi Sea; Gulf of Alaska; Milton; McAllister; Beaufort Sea; Chukchi; Kamchatka; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5605563; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5605563

Liparis gibbus Bean, 1881. Dusky Snailfish, Polka-dot Snailfish, or Variegated Snailfish. To 52.4 cm (20.6 in) TL (Able and McAllister 1980). Beaufort Sea (as far east as 71°18’N, 150°06’W) (and possibly east of the Alaskan Beaufort Sea) and Chukchi Sea to north-western Bering Sea, eastern and western Bering Sea, Commander and Aleutian Islands, and Gulf of Alaska to northern British Columbia (Mecklenburg et al. 2018). Reported from south-eastern Kamchatka and northern Kuril Islands but there are no confirmed records from there or from the western Bering Sea south of the north-western portion (Mecklenburg et al. 2018). Also reported from throughout much of the Canadian Arctic (Coad in Coad and Reist 2018); the reports were tentatively included as Liparis bathyarcticus Parr, 1931 by Mecklenburg et al. (2018). Benthic; depth: 9–364 m (30–1,194 ft) (min.: Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington; confirmed by Katherine Maslenikov; max.: Mecklenburg et al. 2011), or perhaps to 647 m (2,122 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2016). Historically confused with Liparis bathyarcticus and L. tunicatus (Mecklenburg et al. 2011). 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 139, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008