Anisarchus medius

• 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; Perciformes; Stichaeidae; Anisarchus; Anisarchus medius; Arctic Ocean; Beaufort Sea; Alaska; Yukon
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5822729; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6FF28FF0C98EAFA60F91936AC

Anisarchus medius (Reinhardt, 1837). Stout Eelblenny . Variously reported to 20 cm (7.9 in) TL (Wienerroither et al. 2011), 28.6 cm (11.3 in) (Mecklenburg et al. 2018), and 30 cm (11.8 in) TL (Coad in Coad and Reist 2018). Circumpolar in Arctic Ocean (Coad in Coad and Reist 2018) and southward to Sea of Okhotsk off Hokkaido, Japan (Yamanaka and Yabe 2012) to south-eastern Alaska at Auke Bay (Mecklenburg and Sheiko 2004), and Coco Harbor (55°03’N, 133°02’W) (Personal communication: University of Alaska Fairbanks Fish Collection, Fairbanks, Alaska). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 300 m (984 ft) (min.: Mecklenburg et al. 2018; max.: Federov et al. 2003). Classified by some authors in Lumpenus . Date of the original species description is 1837, although previously given as 1836 (Mecklenburg and Sheiko 2004). 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 186, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008