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Liparis megacephalus
Description
Liparis megacephalus (Burke, 1912).
Bighead Snailfish. To about 28 cm (11 in) TL (Kim et al. 1993). Sea of Japan off South Korea (a questionable record— Fricke et al. 2020); eastern Bering Sea and off Amchitka Island, Aleutian Islands. Benthic; depth: 58–69 m (190–226 ft). All except length in Mecklenburg et al. (2002).
Notes
Published as part of 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, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 140, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Orchidaceae
- Genus
- Liparis
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Order
- Asparagales
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Scientific name authorship
- Burke
- Species
- megacephalus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Liparis megacephalus (Burke, 1912) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Kim, I. - S., Kang, E. - J. & Youn, C. - H. (1993) New records of eight species of the suborder Cottoidei (Pisces: Scorpaeniformes) from Korea. Korean Journal of Zoology, 36, 21 - 27 [In Korean.]
- Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & van der Laan, R. (Eds). 2020. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, Reference. Available from: http: // researcharchive. calacademy. org / research / ichthyology / catalog / fishcatmain. asp (accessed 17 April 2021).