Clinocottus acuticeps ( Gilbert, 1896 )

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 : 119

Clinocottus acuticeps ( Gilbert, 1896) .

Sharpnose Sculpin. To 6.4 cm (2.5 in) TL ( Miller and Lea 1972). Attu Island, Aleutian Islands ( Gilbert and Burke 1912) to Big Sur River, central California ( Miller and Lea 1972); one record from Santa Catalina Island (33°18’N, 118°21’W) (NWFSC-FRAM). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 114 m (373 ft) (min.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002; max. NWFSC-FRAM). Although previously thought to be an intertidal and shallow subtidal species, we note that the NWFSC-FRAM database records 34 individuals captured between 49 and 114 m (161–373 ft). Often in brackish water, occasionally in fresh water ( Morrow 1980). Perhaps more properly in the genus Artedius (Knope 2013) . Clinocottus (Oxycottus) acuticeps (Buser and López 2015) .