Icelus spatula Gilbert & Burke, 1912

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 : 122

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.”