Ptilichthys goodei Bean, 1881

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 : 191

Ptilichthys goodei Bean, 1881 .

Quillfish. To 39.3 cm (15.5 in) SL (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington). Seas of Japan and Okhotsk to Litke Strait, and Commander and Aleutian Islands (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), and Bering Sea as far northward as 57°54’N, 169°40’W ( Maslenikov et al. 2013) to central Oregon ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Possibly buried in substrate during the day; depth: surface to 360 m (1,181 ft) (min.: Hart 1973; max.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002).