Icelus spatula Gilbert & Burke 1912
Description
Icelus spatula Gilbert & Burke, 1912.
Spatulate Sculpin. To about 21 cm (7.1 in) TL (Tokranov and Orlov 2005). Circumpolar; Sea of Okhotsk (Schmidt 1950), Kuril Islands (Tokranov and Orlov 2005), and western North Pacific off Kamchatka (Gilbert and Burke 1912), to Arctic Seas off Russia, Alaska (Chukchi and Beaufort Seas), and Canada to western Greenland and Labrador (D. W. Nelson 1984); Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands west to Atka Island (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington), and eastern Gulf of Alaska at Glacier Bay (Quast and Hall 1972). Benthic; depth: 12–930 m (39–3,050 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2011). Ten years (1993–2002) of intensive sampling off the Kuril Islands found I. spatula at 100–300 m (328–984 ft) (Tokranov and Orlov 2005). Mecklenburg and Steinke (2015) note that I. spatula and I. spiniger are so similar in appearance that “the relationship [between the two taxa]…should be reevaluated.”
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Cottidae
- Genus
- Icelus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Scorpaeniformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Gilbert & Burke
- Species
- spatula
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Icelus spatula Gilbert, 1912 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Gilbert, C. H. & Burke, C. V. (1912) Fishes from Bering Sea and Kamchatka. Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, 30, 31 - 96.
- Tokranov, A. M. & Orlov, A. M. (2005) Some features of the biology of Icelus spiniger (Cottidae) in Pacific waters off the northern Kuril Islands. Journal of Ichthyology, 45, 229 - 236.
- Schmidt, P. J. (1950) Fishes of the Sea of Okhotsk. Akademii Nauk SSSR, Trudy Tikhookeanskogo Komiteta 6. [Translation by Israel Program for Scientific Translation, 1965.]
- Nelson, D. W. (1984) Systematics and distribution of cottid fishes of the genera Rastrinus and Icelus. Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences, Number 138.
- Quast, J. C. & Hall, E. L. (1972) List of fishes of Alaska and adjacent waters with a guide to some of their literature. NOAA Technical Report NMFS SSRF - 658 [with errata sheet dated 20 Dec. 1972.]
- Mecklenburg, C. W., Moller, P. R. & Steinke, D. (2011) Biodiversity of arctic marine fishes: taxonomy and zoogeography. Marine Biodiversity, 41, 109 - 140. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 12526 - 010 - 0070 - z
- Mecklenburg, C. W. & Steinke, D. (2015) Ichthyofaunal baselines in the Pacific Arctic region and the RUSALCA study area. Oceanography, 28, 158 - 189. https: // doi. org / 10.5670 / oceanog. 2015.64