Hemilepidotus papilio (Bean 1880) Mecklenburg et al. 2016
- 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
- Hemilepidotus
- species
- Hemilepidotus papilio
description
Butterfly Sculpin. To 45 cm (17.7 in) FL (Kulik et al. 2016). Sea of Okhotsk, and Kuril Islands, and south-eastern Kamchatka to Chukchi Sea as far north as 72 ° 29 ’ N, 158 ° 26 ’ W (misprinted as 158 ° 60 ’ W in Mecklenburg et al. 2016), eastern Bering Sea, and Aleutian Islands west to Buldir Island (Mecklenburg et al. 2016). Benthic; marine and brackish waters (Dyldin and Orlov 2017); depth: intertidal to 320 m (1,050 ft) (min.: Bean 1880; max.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002), typically at less than 150 m (Allen and Smith 1988). Originally named Melletes papilio, a name that is still occasionally seen in the literature.