Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus (Pallas 1814)
- 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
- Cottidae
- genus
- Myoxocephalus
- species
- Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus
description
Great Sculpin. To 91.5 cm (36 cm) TL (Datsky 2017). Seas of Japan and Okhotsk to Kamchatka to Commander – Aleutian Chain to northern Chukchi Sea (70 ° 20 ’ N, 163 ° 06 ’ W) (Mecklenburg et al. 2018) to Puget Sound, Washington (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983); northern California (43 ° 05 ’ N) (NWFSC-FRAM). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 825 m (2,707 ft) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983; max.: Kim 2001). Myoxocephalus ensiger Jordan & Starks, 1904, classified as either a subspecies or junior synonym, may be a valid species (Mecklenburg et al. 2007).