Psychrolutes paradoxus Gunther 1861
- 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
- Psychrolutidae
- genus
- Psychrolutes
- species
- Psychrolutes paradoxus
description
Tadpole Sculpin or Tadpole Fathead. To 7 cm (2.8 in) TL (DFO). Seas of Okhotsk, and Japan to Norton Sound, Bering Sea, and Commander – Aleutian Chain to Puget Sound, Washington (Mecklenburg et al. 2002); Oregon (45 ° 22 ’ N) (NWFSC-FRAM). Benthic; depth: 3 – 419 m (10 – 1,374 ft) (min.: Dinnel et al. 1990; max.: NWFSC-FRAM). A record from 1,100 m (3,609 ft) (Fedorov 2000) was later determined to represent Psychrolutes phrictus Stein & Bond, 1978 (Love et al. 2005).
Name
- Homonyms
- Psychrolutes paradoxus Gunther 1861