Stellerina xyosterna ( Jordan & Gilbert, 1880)

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Stellerina xyosterna ( Jordan & Gilbert, 1880) .

Pricklebreast Poacher. To 16.5 cm (6.5 in) TL ( Jordan and Evermann 1898). Icy Bay, northern Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), and northern British Columbia near Alaska border ( Barraclough and Peden 1976) to Bahía Magdalena, southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Benthic; depth: 2 m (7 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to at least 100 m (330 ft) ( Gotshall and Geibel 2005). Occella impi Gruchy, 1970 , originally described from a single juvenile specimen from British Columbia, was shown to be a junior synonym of S. xyosterna (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) .