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Triglops forficatus (Gilbert, 1896). Scissortail Sculpin. To 27.5 cm (10.8 in) SL, about 32.3 cm TL (12.7 in;
Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Northern Kuril Islands to Commander Islands, Aleutian Islands, and Bering
Sea off Cape Navarin to Cook Inlet, northwestern Gulf of Alaska; single record from False Point Retreat,
eastern Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Benthic, at depths of 20–425 m (66–1,394 ft; Allen and
Smith 1988).
*Triglops jordani (Jordan & Starks, 1904). Sakhalin Sculpin. To 16.8 cm (6.6 in) SL, about 19.8 cm TL (7.8 in).
Japan Sea off South Korea to Okhotsk Sea to western Pacific at Avacha Bay, southeastern Kamchatka.
Reports of occurrence in eastern Bering Sea are doubtful and not verifiable. Benthic, at depths of 22–
348 m (72–1,142 ft). All in Mecklenburg et al. (2002).
Triglops macellus (Bean, 1884). Roughspine Sculpin. To about 30 cm (11.8 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).
Kiska and Amchitka islands, Aleutian Islands to eastern Bering Sea north of St. Matthew and Nunivak
islands, Alaska to Washington (Mecklenburg et al. 2002); reported from central Oregon (44°23'N;
Weinberg et al. 2002). Benthic, at depths of 18–275 m (59–902 ft; Mecklenburg et al. 2002).
Triglops metopias Gilbert & Burke, 1912. Highbrow Sculpin. To 19.4 cm (7.6 in) TL (UW 46544). Amchitka
and Semisopochnoi islands, Aleutian Islands to Auke Bay, southeastern Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).
Benthic, at depths of 13–136 m (43–446 ft) (min.: UW 20918; max.: UW 46635).
*Triglops nybelini Jensen, 1944. Bigeye Sculpin. To 17 cm (6.7 in) TL. Arctic Ocean, practically circumpolar;
known to occur in the Beaufort Sea not far from Alaska north of the Mackenzie River Delta, western
Canada. Benthic, at depths of 9–930 m (29–3,051 ft), usually deeper than 200 m (656 ft). All in
Mecklenburg et al. (2002).
Triglops pingelii Reinhardt, 1837. Ribbed Sculpin. To 20.2 cm (8.1 in) SL, about 23.3 cm TL (9.3 in); reported
but not verifiable to 24.2 cm TL (9.5 in; Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Circumpolar in Arctic Ocean; Beaufort
and Chukchi seas to Bering Sea and Commander–Aleutian chain to Japan Sea off North Korea and to
Puget Sound, Washington (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Benthic, at depths of 4–482 m (13–1,581 ft; Allen
and Smith 1988), unusual deeper than 150 m.
Triglops scepticus Gilbert, 1896. Spectacled Sculpin. To 30.8 cm (12.1 in) SL, about 35.4 cm TL (13.9 in;
Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Japan Sea off North Korea and Pacific Ocean off Honshu, Japan to southern
Sea of Okhotsk, to Commander–Aleutian chain and Bering Sea to Cape Navarin, and to Cape Ommaney,
southeastern Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Benthic, at depths of 25–925 m (82–3,034 ft; Allen and
Smith 1988), rarely deeper than 400 m.
Triglops xenostethus Gilbert, 1896. Scalybreasted Sculpin. To 9.7 cm (3.8 in) SL, about 11.4 cm TL (4.5 in).
Kuril Islands and Commander Islands; Aleutian Islands; reported but not confirmed from Pribilof
Islands, southeastern Bering Sea. Benthic, at depths of 62–178 m (203–584 ft). All in Mecklenburg et
al. (2002).
Zesticelus profundorum (Gilbert, 1896). Flabby Sculpin. To 6.4 cm (2.5 in) TL (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983).
Okhotsk Sea, northern Kuril islands (Sheiko and Fedorov 2000), and Pacific Ocean off southeastern
Kamchatka (Bolin 1944) to southeastern Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) and
off Vancouver Island, southern British Columbia (G. E. Gillespie, pers. comm. to M L. and C. W. M.) to
northern Baja California (Bolin 1944). At depths of 587–2,580 m (1,926–8,465 ft) (min.: UW 46031;
max.: Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). A reported minimum depth of 88 m (289 ft; Eschmeyer and Herald
1983) is evidently a printer’s error (Mecklenburg et al. 2002; W. N. Eschmeyer and R. N. Lea, pers.
comms. to C. W. M.). Specimens recently archived (e.g., UW 46039; 58°31'N, 176°13'W, 884 m) help fill
the records gap along the continental slope between Cape Navarin and southeastern Bering Sea reported
by Mecklenburg et al. (2002).
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