Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus (Pallas, 1814)

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

Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus (Pallas, 1814) .

Great Sculpin. To 91.5 cm (36 cm) TL ( Datsky 2017). Seas of Japan and Okhotsk to Kamchatka to Commander–Aleutian Chain to northern Chukchi Sea (70°20’N, 163°06’W) ( Mecklenburg et al. 2018) to Puget Sound, Washington ( Eschmeyer and Herald 1983); northern California (43°05’N) (NWFSC-FRAM). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 825 m (2,707 ft) (min.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983; max.: Kim 2001). Myoxocephalus ensiger Jordan & Starks, 1904, classified as either a subspecies or junior synonym, may be a valid species ( Mecklenburg et al. 2007).