Icelinus limbaughi: A New Species of Sculpin (Teleostei: Cottidae) from Southern California
Icelinus limbaughi n. sp. is described from 36 specimens collected off the coast of California, from the Channel Islands, off San Diego, and on Cortez Bank, about 160 km off the coast of San Diego. It differs from all other species of Icelinus by the following combination of characters: a dorsal scale band that originates under the fourth to seventh dorsal-fin spine and terminates below the final or penultimate dorsal fin-ray, not extending onto caudal peduncle; absence of scales in the pectoral axilla; absence of cirri on dorsal-fin spines.Abstract
Illustration of the holotype of Icelinus limbaughi, SIO 62–628, a 67.8 mm SL male.
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(RHR) Scripps Institution of Oceanography, university of California San Diego. 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093– 0208; and (WLS) Department of Ichthyology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, New York 10024 and Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University, New York, New York. (RHR) rrosenblatt@ucsd.edu; and (WLS) leosmith@amnh.org Send reprint requests to (WLS).