Temnocora candida (Gilbert & Burke 1912)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Scorpaeniformes
- family
- Liparidae
- genus
- Temnocora
- species
- Temnocora candida
description
Bigeye Snailfish or Crested Snailfish. To 10.6 cm (4.2 in) SL. Western North Pacific Ocean off northern Kuril Islands and south-eastern Kamchatka; south-eastern Bering Sea (56 ° 17 ’ N, 168 ° 45 ’ W) (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington) and Aleutian Islands to north-western Gulf of Alaska at Cook Inlet. Depth: 64 – 400 m (210 – 1,312 ft). All except Bering Sea record in Mecklenburg et al. (2002). Previously Careproctus candidus Gilbert & Burke, 1912. The descriptions of two closely related new species are being prepared (Gardner, Orr, and Tornabene).