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Ernogrammus walkeri Follett & Powell, 1988. Masked Prickleback. To 28.8 cm (11.3 in) SL. Monterey Bay,
central California to San Miguel Island, southern California. Intertidal and to depth of 21.3 m (70 ft).
All in Follett and Powell (1988).
Esselenichthys carli (Follett & Anderson, 1990). Threeline Prickleback. To 17.5 cm (6.9 in) SL. Pacific Grove,
northern California to Bahia San Quintin, northern Baja California. At depths of 1.2–26 m (4–85 ft). All in
Follett and Anderson (1990). The original genus name was Esselenia but this name is not available for fishes
because it was already given to a grasshopper, so Anderson (2003) changed the name to Esselenichthys.
Esselenichthys laurae (Follett & Anderson, 1990). Twoline Prickleback. To 9.8 cm (3.9 in) SL. Farallon
Islands, northern California to Punta Banda, northern Baja California. At depths of 10.7–46 m (35–
151 ft). All in Follett and Anderson (1990). The original genus name was Esselenia but was preoccupied
as a grasshopper name, so Anderson (2003) changed the name to Esselenichthys.
Eumesogrammus praecisus (Krøyer, 1837). Fourline Snakeblenny. To 23 cm (9.1 in) TL. Sea of Okhotsk to
northern Bering Sea and Chukchi and Beaufort seas, Alaska through Canadian Arctic to western North
Atlantic. At depths of 16–400 m (52–1,312 ft), typically less than 70 m (230 ft). All in Mecklenburg et al.
(2002) and Mecklenburg and Sheiko (2004).
Gymnoclinus cristulatus Gilbert & Burke, 1912. Trident Prickleback. To 11.6 cm (4.6 in) SL. Hokkaido to
Kuril Islands, eastern Kamchatka, Commander Islands, and western Aleutian Islands at Amchitka Island,
Alaska. Intertidal and to depth of 40 m (131 ft), usually in tidepools or shallower than 20 m (66 ft). All
in Mecklenburg et al. (2002).
Kasatkia seigeli Posner & Lavenberg, 1999. Sixspot Prickleback. To 14 cm (5.5 in) TL. Mendocino County,
northern California to Diablo Cove, central California. Inshore and to depth of 26 m (85 ft). All in
Eschmeyer and Herald (1983) from Kasatkia sp.; the species was later described and named by Posner
and Lavenberg (1999).
Leptoclinus maculatus (Fries, 1837). Daubed Shanny. To 20 cm (7.9 in) TL. Northern Scandinavia, White
Sea to Spitsbergen, Iceland, southern Greenland to Cape Cod, Massachusetts; Arctic Canada to Beaufort
Sea, Alaska to Sea of Okhotsk and Tatar Strait, Sea of Japan and to Puget Sound, Washington. At depths
of 2–475 m (7–1,558 ft). All in Mecklenburg et al. (2002) and Mecklenburg and Sheiko (2004). Classified
by some authors in Lumpenus.
Lumpenella longirostris (Evermann & Goldsborough, 1907). Longsnout Prickleback. To 43 cm (17.2 in) TL
(Antonenko et al. 2003). Western North Atlantic (one record from Greenland; Miki in Okamura et al.
1995) and North Pacific; Sea of Japan (Lindberg and Krasyukova 1975, Grigor'ev 1993, Antonenko et
al. 2004) and Sea of Okhotsk (Dudnik and Dolganov 1992) to Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands, Alaska
(Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Burrard Inlet, southern British Columbia (Hart 1973). At depths of 25–
1,195 m (82–3,921 ft) (min.: Allen and Smith 1988; max.: Parin and Pakhorukov 2003), adults typically
at 300–600 m (984–1,968 ft; Mecklenburg and Sheiko 2004). Lumpenlla nigricans is a junior synonym.
Lumpenopsis clitella Hastings & Walker, 2003. Saddled Prickleback. To 5.5 cm (2.2 in) SL (Hastings and
Walker 2003). Collected in southern California off San Diego and Santa Catalina Island (Hastings
and Walker 2003). Observed from a manned submersible at a number of offshore banks in southern
California (M. L., unpubl. data). Depth range 54–130 m (177–429 ft) (min.: Hastings and Walker 2003;
max.: M. L., unpubl. data). Only two specimens have been collected.
Lumpenopsis hypochroma (Hubbs & Schultz, 1932). Y-Prickleback. To 7.4 cm (2.9 in) SL (Hubbs and Schultz
1932). Known with certainty only from British Columbia (Hastings and Walker 2003). At depths of
30–100 m (98–328 ft; Campbell 1989). Moved from genus Allolumpenus to Lumpenopsis by Hastings
and Walker (2003). The correct spelling of the specific name in the new combination is hypochroma, to
agree with the gender (feminine) of Lumpenopsis (Mecklenburg and Sheiko 2004).
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