Aspidophoroides monopterygius (Bloch 1786)
- 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
- Agonidae
- genus
- Aspidophoroides
- species
- Aspidophoroides monopterygius
description
Alligatorfish. To 22 cm (8.7 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2016). Atlantic and Pacific Oceans; Seas of Japan and Okhotsk to Gulf of Anadyr, to Bering Sea, and Aleutian Islands, to Chukchi Sea, and Beaufort Sea eastward (to about 71 ° 20 ’ N, 151 ° 06 ’ W), and to Prince William Sound, Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2016). Benthic; depth: 8 – 340 m (26 – 1,115 ft) (min.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002; max.: Mecklenburg et al. 2018). A maximum depth of 500 m (1,640 ft) reported in Mecklenburg et al. (2002) cannot be verified and a record of 695 m (2,280 ft) (Coad in Coad and Reist 2018) is without documentation. While we consider Aspidophorides bartoni Gilbert, 1896 to be a junior synonym (Mecklenburg et al. 2018), some authors consider it a valid species (e. g., Tohkairin et al. 2015).