Megalocottus platycephalus (Pallas, 1814)

Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Zootaxa 5053 (1), pp. 1-285 : 123

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:295D03A4-589A-4E3F-B030-5121EF7D7398

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5605251

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BE87D6-FFEB-FFCF-98EA-FE28F8113283

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Megalocottus platycephalus (Pallas, 1814)
status

 

Megalocottus platycephalus (Pallas, 1814) View in CoL .

Belligerent Sculpin. To 42 cm ( 16.5 in) TL (Tokranov 1994). Sea of Japan at Peter the Great Bay to Sea of Okhotsk, and western Bering Sea, to Chukchi Sea off Chukchi Peninsula, and Beaufort Sea, off Point Barrow ( Mecklenburg et al. 2011), and south to Herendeen Bay, eastern Bering Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Benthic; depth: 0–120 m ( 394 ft) ( Federov et al. 2003). Often entering lower reaches of rivers ( Mecklenburg et al. 2016).

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