Description

Dorsal spines (total): 59 - 66; Dorsal soft rays (total): 0; Anal spines: 1; Anal soft rays: 41 - 45; Vertebrae: 64 - 70. Gray to nearly black to bright spotted with patterns; usually a wavy line extending along back, separating dark portion from lighter spots that continue onto dorsal fin (Ref. 43939). Caudal fin rounded.

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Perciformes/Zoarcoidei

Family: Stichaeidae

Genus: Alectrias

Species: Alectrias alectrolophus (Pallas, 1814)

Climate Zone

Location

• Northwest Pacific: Commander Islands and southeastern Kamchatka to the Sea of Okhotsk and northern Sea of Japan. Northeast Pacific: Alaska.

Biology

Mainly intertidal, but may be found at depths as much as 100 m (Ref. 43939); typically found shallower than 50 meters (Ref. 51666). Often in bays with pebble-rock debris bottoms (Ref. 43939). Oviparous, eggs are guarded by the female parent (Ref. 58332).

Habitat

demersal

Conservation Status

Not Evaluated

Threat to Humans

Harmless