Malacocottus zonurus Bean, 1890

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Malacocottus zonurus Bean, 1890 .

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).