Phytichthys chirus (Jordan & Gilbert 1880)
- 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
- Perciformes
- family
- Stichaeidae
- genus
- Phytichthys
- species
- Phytichthys chirus
description
Ribbon Prickleback. To 21.1 cm (8.3 in) TL (Mecklenburg et a. 2002). Amchitka Island, Aleutian Islands (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington), and Gulf of Alaska coasts to southern California (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 12 m (39 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).