Myoxocephalus scorpiu s (Linnaeus, 1758)

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 scorpiu s (Linnaeus, 1758) .

Shorthorn Sculpin or Warty Sculpin. To at least 60 cm (18.3 in) TL ( Eriksen et al. 2020) or, but without documention, to 90 cm (35.4 in) TL ( Coad and Reist 2004). Circumpolar; Laptev Sea to East Siberian, Chukchi, and Beaufort Seas to Greenland, and northern North Atlantic, and Arctic seas of Europe; Sea of Okhotsk off south-western Kamchatka, Commander, and Aleutian Islands to Bering Sea, and northern British Columbia ( Mecklenburg et al. 2016). Benthic; depth: intertidal ( McAllister 1975), adults as shallow as 3 m (10 ft) or less ( Ennis 1970) to 550 m (1,804 ft) ( Mecklenburg et al. 2018). All information other than maximum length and maximum depth from Mecklenburg et al. (2002). Includes records formerly attributed to Myoxocephalus verrucosus (Bean, 1881) , as a junior synonym of M. scorpius (Mecklenburg et al. 2002, 2007, 2011; Eschmeyer 2005).