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New Data on Soft Sculpin Malacocottus zonurus (Psychrolutidae) from the Northwestern Bering Sea

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Biological features of soft sculpin Malacocottus zonurus (Psychrolutidae) are described based on the analysis of samples from bottom trawl catches in the northwestern Bering Sea in July–August 1999 and 2001 at depths of 140–500 m.

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    A. I. Glubokov, M. K. Glubokovskii & N. P. Kovacheva

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Glubokov, A.I., Glubokovskii, M.K. & Kovacheva, N.P. New Data on Soft Sculpin Malacocottus zonurus (Psychrolutidae) from the Northwestern Bering Sea. J. Ichthyol. 59, 435–438 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0032945219030056

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