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(Mecklenburg et al. 2002, Sheiko and Mecklenburg 2004). At depths of 7–520 m (23–1,706 ft; Sheiko
and Fedorov 2000); less than 100 m off Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Sometimes seen spelled olriki,
but the original, correct spelling is olrikii. The correct date for the species description is 1877, although
sometimes seen as 1876 (Sheiko and Mecklenburg 2004).
Xeneretmus latifrons (Gilbert, 1890). Blacktip Poacher. To 19.0 cm (7.5 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Adults
from Rennell Sound and Skidegate Channel, British Columbia (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Punta
Colnett, northern Baja California (Fitch and Lavenberg 1968). The presence of larvae in the northern
Gulf of Alaska indicates adults are also present there (Matarese et al. 2003). At depths of 2 m (7 ft) or less
to 1,291 m (4,235 ft) (min.: Miller et al. 1980 and UW 2915 [beach seine]; max.: SIO 75-473).
Xeneretmus leiops Gilbert, 1915. Smootheye Poacher. To 27 cm (10.8 in) TL (Barraclough and Peden 1976).
West of Forrester Island, southeastern Alaska (Peden and Jamieson 1988) to Santa Catalina Island, southern
California (Miller and Lea 1972). At depths of 37–399 m (122–1,308 ft; Eschmeyer and Herald 1983).
Xeneretmus ritteri Gilbert, 1915. Stripefin Poacher. To 15.9 cm (6.25 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Malibu,
southern California to Isla Cedros, central Baja California; isolated population in northern Gulf of
California (Miller and Lea 1972). At depths of 105–366 m (344–1,200 ft) (min.: Allen et al. 2002; max.:
Miller and Lea 1972).
Xeneretmus triacanthus (Gilbert, 1890). Bluespotted Poacher. To 17.8 cm (7 in) TL (Jordan and Evermann
1898). Kwatna Inlet, British Columbia (Peden and Gruchy 1971) to Punta Baja, northern Baja California
(Leipertz 1985). At depths of 15–429 m (49–1,407 ft) (min.: Fay et al. 1978; max.: Shaw et al. 2000).
Family Cyclopteridae — Lumpfishes or Lumpsuckers
Lumpsuckers are sometimes called lumpfishes after an Atlantic coast species called the Lumpfish (Cyclopterus
lumpus).
Aptocyclus ventricosus (Pallas, 1769). Smooth Lumpsucker. To 42 cm (16.5 in) TL. Japan and Okhotsk seas
to Providence Bay, Gulf of Anadyr; and northern Bering Sea, Alaska to North Pacific south of Aleutian
Islands and Gulf of Alaska to Mathieson Channel, British Columbia. Pelagic; usually found in deep
waters from near surface to depth of more than 500 m (1,650 ft; Mecklenburg et al. 2002); taken in
a bottom trawl towed at 1,556 m (5,104 ft), but the fish may have entered the net above the bottom
(Hoff and Britt 2003). Boris A. Sheiko (pers. comm. to C. W. M.) reports that in the Okhotsk Sea A.
ventricosus are frequently caught by pelagic trawl nets towed in the open sea from 1,000 to 500 m, as well
as from 500 to 200 m and 200 m to the surface. Kido and Shinohara (1996) showed that the form named
Pelagocyclus vitiazi Lindberg & Legeza, 1955, is the juvenile stage of A. ventricosus.
*Cyclopteropsis lindbergi Soldatov, 1930. Lindberg’s Lumpsucker. To 7.4 cm (2.9 in) TL. Sea of Japan off
Korean Peninsula to Sea of Okhotsk and western Bering Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2002); one probable
record, still under study, from the Aleutian Islands south of the Islands of Four Mountains, Alaska
(C. W. M., unpubl. data). At depths of 49–118 m (161–387 ft; Mecklenburg et al. 2002). May be a junior
synonym of Cyclopteropsis bergi Popov, 1929, and may more appropriately be classified in Eumicrotremus
(Mecklenburg and Sheiko 2003).
Eumicrotremus andriashevi Perminov, 1936. Pimpled Lumpsucker. To 9.7 cm TL (3.8 in) Mecklenburg et
al. 2002). Karaginskiy Bay, western Bering Sea to northeastern Chukchi Sea and to eastern Bering Sea
as far south as St. Matthew Island (Mecklenburg and Sheiko 2003). At depths of 20–83 m (66–274 ft;
Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Specimens from the Okhotsk Sea and Kuril Islands previously attributed to E.
andriashevi represent the western Pacific forms Eumicrotremus schmidti Lindberg & Legeza, 1955, and
Eumicrotremus fedorovi Mandrytsa, 1991, respectively. Conversely, many specimens from the northeastern
Bering Sea, Alaska, recorded as E. orbis are E. andriashevi (Mecklenburg and Sheiko 2003).
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