Malacocottus zonurus Bean 1890
- 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
- Malacocottus
- species
- Malacocottus zonurus
description
Darkfin Sculpin or Darkfin Fathead. To 39 cm (15.4 in) TL (Glubokov et al. 2019). Honshu, Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, and Bering Sea to outer coast of Washington and in Salish Sea (Stevenson 2015); reported from northern Oregon (44 ° 53 ’ N) (NWFSC-FRAM), but catch made before Stevenson’s revision of the genus. Benthic; depth: 30 – 1,172 m (98 – 3,844 ft) (DFO — as Malacocottus aleuticus), reported as 27 – 1,980 m (89 – 6,494 ft) from the western Pacific (Federov et al. 2003). Malacocottus aleuticus (Smith, 1904) is a synonym (Stevenson 2015).
Name
- Homonyms
- Malacocottus zonurus Bean 1890