Icelus spiniger és una espècie de peix pertanyent a la família dels còtids.
Descripció Fa 24 cm de llargària màxima. Aleta caudal arrodonida.FishBase Tokranov, A.M., 1993. Feeding peculiarities of Icelus spiniger Gilbert (Cottidae) near Kamchatka west coast. Byulleten' Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody. Otdel Biologicheskii (Bulletin of the Moscow Society of Naturalists. Biological Section) 98(2): 48-52.
Depredadors És depredat per Polypera simushirae i l'halibut negre (Reinhardtius hippoglossoides).FishBase Orlov, A.M. i D.L. Pitruk, 1996. Data on the feeding of the Polypera simushirae (Liparidae) with comments on its distribution at the northern Kuril Islands. J. Ichthyol. 36(9):781-786.Yang, M.S. i P.A. Livingston, 1988. Food habits and daily ration of Greenland Halibut, Reinhardtius hippoglossoides, in the eastern Bering Sea. Fish. Bull. 86(4):675-690.
Hàbitat És un peix marí, demersal i de clima temperat que viu entre 25 i 770 m de fondària.Allen, M.J. i G.B. Smith, 1988. Atlas and zoogeography of common fishes in the Bering Sea and northeastern Pacific. NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS 66, 151 p.
Distribució geogràfica Es troba al Pacífic nord: Alaska, el Canadà i Rússia.Allen, M.J. i G.B. Smith, 1988.Andriyashev, A.P. i N.V. Chernova, 1995. Annotated list of fishlike vertebrates and fish of the arctic seas and adjacent waters. J. Ichthyol. 35(1):81-123.Eschmeyer, W.N., E.S. Herald i H. Hammann, 1983. A field guide to Pacific coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Estats Units. 336 p.Evermann, B.W. i E.L. Goldsborough, 1907. The fishes of Alaska. Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish. 26: 219-360.Fedorov, V.V., I.A. Chereshnev, M.V. Nazarkin, A.V. Shestakov i V.V. Volobuev, 2003. Catalog of marine and freswater fishes of the northern part of the Sea of Okhotsk. Vladivostok: Dalnauka, 2003. 204 p.Hart, J.L., 1973. Pacific fishes of Canada. Bull. Fish. Res. Board Can. 180:740 p.McAllister, D.E., 1990. A list of the fishes of Canada. Syllogeus Núm. 64. Nat. Mus. Nat. Sci., Ottawa, Canadà. 310 p.Nelson, J.S., E.J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L.T. Findley, C.R. Gilbert, R.N. Lea i J.D. Williams, 2004. Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. American Fisheries Society, Special Publication 29, Bethesda, Maryland, Estats Units.Orlov, A.M., 1998. Demersal ichthyofauna of Pacific waters around the Kuril islands and Southeastern Kamchatka. Russ. J. Mar. Biol. 24(3):144-160.Orlov, A.M., 2000. Groundfish feeding habits and trophic relations on the western Bering Sea continental slope. p. 387-388. A: The Third World Fisheries Congress Abstracts Book. Beijing, la Xina.Quast, J.C. i E.L. Hall, 1972. List of fishes of Alaska and adjacent waters with a guide to some of their literature. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS SSRF-658, 47 p.Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea i W.B. Scott, 1980. A list of common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Am. Fish. Soc. Spec. Publ. (12)1-174.Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea i W.B. Scott, 1991. Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Am. Fish. Soc. Spec. Pub. (20):183 p.
Observacions És inofensiu per als humans.
Referències
Bibliografia Anònim, 2001. Base de dades de la col·lecció de peixos del National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution). Smithsonian Institution - Division of Fishes.
Wu, H.L., K.-T. Shao i C.F. Lai (eds.), 1999. Latin-Chinese dictionary of fishes names. The Sueichan Press, Taiwan.
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