Nautichthys oculofasciatus (Girard, 1858)

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 : 131

Nautichthys oculofasciatus (Girard, 1858) .

Sailfin Sculpin or Sailfin Sea Raven. To 20.3 cm (8 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Shumagin Islands (54°56’N, 160°24’W), western Gulf of Alaska ( Maslenikov et al. 2013) to San Miguel Island, southern California ( Miller and Lea 1972). Benthic; marine and brackish waters ( Dyldin and Orlov 2017); depth: intertidal to 208 m (682 ft) (min.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002; max.: Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington). A specimen was reported caught in the eastern Bering Sea at about 57°30’N, 169°20’W. However, the specimen was not retained (Duane Stevenson, pers. comm. to M.L.). A specimen in the University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection database, UW 014324, as N. oculofasciatus from the Bering Sea, is actually Nautichthys pribilovius ( Jordan & Gilbert in Jordan & Gilbert, 1898) (Katherine Maslenikov).