Myoxocephalus quadricornis (Linnaeus, 1758)

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 : 123

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5605261

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scientific name

Myoxocephalus quadricornis (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Myoxocephalus quadricornis (Linnaeus, 1758) View in CoL .

Fourhorn Sculpin. To 36.5 cm (14.4 in) TL ( Mecklenburg et al. 2016). Circumpolar; Arctic coasts of Russia to Gulf of Anadyr; Alaska from Beaufort Sea to Saint Lawrence Island, and northern Bristol Bay, Bering Sea ( Mecklenburg et al. 2016). Coastal marine and estuarine waters and ascends rivers as far up as 100 km (62 mi) ( Mecklenburg et al. 2016); benthic; depth: at least as shallow as 5 m (16 ft) to 55 m (180 ft) (min.: Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington; max.: Mecklenburg et al. 2016). While recognized in the genus Triglopsis by some authors, genetic data supports classification in Myoxocephalus ( Mecklenburg et al. 2018) .

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