Stellerina xyosterna

• 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; Agonidae; Stellerina; Stellerina xyosterna; Yukon; Baja; Gulf of Alaska; Milton; Scripps; Beaufort Sea; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5821884; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5821884

Stellerina xyosterna (Jordan & Gilbert, 1880). Pricklebreast Poacher. To 16.5 cm (6.5 in) TL (Jordan and Evermann 1898). Icy Bay, northern Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), and northern British Columbia near Alaska border (Barraclough and Peden 1976) to Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Benthic; depth: 2 m (7 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to at least 100 m (330 ft) (Gotshall and Geibel 2005). Occella impi Gruchy, 1970, originally described from a single juvenile specimen from British Columbia, was shown to be a junior synonym of S. xyosterna (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 132, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008