Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus

Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus és una espècie de peix pertanyent a la família dels còtids.The Taxonomicon

Descripció Fa 80 cm de llargària màxima i 9 kg de pes. Aleta caudal lleugerament arrodonida.FishBase Fadeev, N.S., 2005. Guide to biology and fisheries of fishes of the North Pacific Ocean. Vladivostok, TINRO-Center. 366 p.Hart, J.L., 1973. Pacific fishes of Canada. Bull. Fish. Res. Board Can. 180:740 p.

Alimentació Menja peixets.Clemens, W.A. i G.V. Wilby, 1961. Fishes of the Pacific coast of Canada. 2a edició. Fish. Res. Bd. Canada Bull. (68):443 p.Tokranov, A.M., 1986. Feeding of giant sculpin Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus Pallas and plain sculpin Myoxocephalus jaok (Cuvier)(Cottidae) in coastal waters of Kamchatka. Vopr. Ikhtiol. 26(6): 980-989.

Hàbitat És un peix marí, demersal i de clima temperat que viu entre 0-775 m de fondària.Riede, K., 2004. Global register of migratory species - from global to regional scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Bonn, Alemanya. 329 p.Allen, M.J. i G.B. Smith, 1988. Atlas and zoogeography of common fishes in the Bering Sea and northeastern Pacific. NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS 66, 151 p.

Distribució geogràfica Es troba al Pacífic nord: des de Hokkaido (el Japó) i Kamtxatka (Rússia) fins a les illes Aleutianes, la costa d'Alaska del mar de Bering i Puget Sound (Washington).Andriyashev, A.P. i N.V. Chernova, 1995. Annotated list of fishlike vertebrates and fish of the arctic seas and adjacent waters. J. Ichthyol. 35(1):81-123.Brodeur, R.D. i P.A. Livingston, 1988. Food habits and diet overlap of various eastern Bering Sea fishes. NOAA Tech. Memo NMFS F/NWC 127:76 p.Eschmeyer, W.N., E.S. Herald i H. Hammann, 1983. A field guide to Pacific coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Estats Units. 336 p.Evermann, B.W. i E.L. Goldsborough, 1907. The fishes of Alaska. Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish. 26: 219-360.Fedorov, V.V., I.A. Chereshnev, M.V. Nazarkin, A.V. Shestakov i V.V. Volobuev, 2003. Catalog of marine and freswater fishes of the northern part of the Sea of Okhotsk. Vladivostok: Dalnauka, 2003. 204 p.Glubokov, A.I. i A.M. Orlov, 2004. Some morphophysiological indices and feeding habits of great sculpin Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus (Cottidae, Pisces) from the western Bering Sea. Vopr. Rybolovstva 5(3): 425-438.Goodson, G., 1988. Fishes of the Pacific coast. Alaska to Peru including the Gulf of California and the Galapagos Islands. Stanford University Press, Stanford, Califòrnia. 267 p.Kim, I.S., Y. Choi, C.L. Lee, Y.J. Lee, B.J. Kim i J.H. Kim, 2005. Illustrated book of Korean fishes. Kyo-Hak Pub Co. Seül, Corea del Sud. 615p.Lamb, A. i P. Edgell, 1986. Coastal fishes of the Pacific northwest. Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd., la Colúmbia Britànica, el Canadà. 224 p.Masuda, H. i G.R. Allen, 1993. Meeresfische der Welt - Groß-Indopazifische Region. Tetra Verlag, Herrenteich, Melle. 528 p.Nelson, J.S., E.J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L.T. Findley, C.R. Gilbert, R.N. Lea i J.D. Williams, 2004. Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. American Fisheries Society, Special Publication 29, Bethesda, Maryland, Estats Units.Orlov, A.M., 1998. Demersal ichthyofauna of Pacific waters around the Kuril islands and Southeastern Kamchatka. Russ. J. Mar. Biol. 24(3):144-160.Quast, J.C. i E.L. Hall, 1972. List of fishes of Alaska and adjacent waters with a guide to some of their literature. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS SSRF-658, 47 p.Sokolovskaya, T.G., A.S. Sokolovskii i E.I. Sobolevskii, 1998. A list of fishes of Peter the Great Bay (the Sea of Japan). J. Ichthyol. 38(1):1-11.Tabunkov, V.D. i E.R. Chernysheva, 1985. Feeding of non-commercial fish species in the Terpeniya Bay Izv. TINRO 110: 98-104.Tokranov, A.M., 1988. Breeding habits of mass species of sculpins in the coastal waters of Kamchatka. Biol. Morya 4: 28-32.Tokranov, A.M., 1992. Features of feeding of benthic predatory fishes of the West Kamchatka Shelf. J. Ichthyol. 32(7):45-55.

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Bibliografia Anònim, 2001. Base de dades de la col·lecció de peixos del National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution). Smithsonian Institution - Division of Fishes. Anònim, 2002. Base de dades de la col·lecció de peixos del American Museum of Natural History. American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West, NY 10024-5192, Estats Units.

Ricker, W.E., 1973. Russian-English dictionary for students of fisheries and aquatic biology. Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Ottawa. Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea i W.B. Scott, 1980. A list of common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Am. Fish. Soc. Spec. Publ. (12)1-174. Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea i W.B. Scott, 1991. Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Am. Fish. Soc. Spec. Pub. (20):183 p. Wu, H.L., K.-T. Shao i C.F. Lai (eds.), 1999. Latin-Chinese dictionary of fishes names. The Sueichan Press, Taiwan.

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