Paraliparis cephalus Gilbert 1892
- 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
- Paraliparis
- species
- Paraliparis cephalus
description
Swellhead Snailfish. To 11 cm (4.3 in) SL (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington). Vicinity of Commander Islands (Sheiko and Fedorov 2000); northern Bering Sea (to 59 ° 25 ’ N, 178 ° 07 ’ W) and western Aleutian Islands near Buldir Island (52 ° 22 ’ N, 175 ° 36 ’ E) (Maslenikov et al. 2013) and southern Bering Sea off Unalaska Island, and Shelikof Strait, western Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to northern Baja California (32 ° 40 ’ N, 117 ° 35 ’ W) (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Depth: 242 – 1,799 m (794 – 5,902 ft) (min.: NWFSC-FRAM; max.: Sheiko and Fedorov 2000).
Name
- Homonyms
- Paraliparis cephalus Gilbert 1892