Hemilepidotus spinosus Ayres, 1854

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Hemilepidotus spinosus Ayres, 1854 .

Brown Irish Lord. To 33 cm (13 in) TL (DFO). Southern Bering Sea ( Matarese et al. 2003) and northern Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Santa Barbara Island, southern California ( Bolin 1944); on mainland to Ventura, southern California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 175 m (574 ft) (min.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002; max.: DFO). As the species has not been moved from the genus in which it was placed when first described, the author name and date of publication should not be in parentheses (as occasionally seen in literature).