Myoxocephalus jaok és una espècie de peix pertanyent a la família dels còtids.The Taxonomicon
Descripció Fa 74 cm de llargària màxima i 8 kg de pes.FishBase Fadeev, N.S., 2005. Guide to biology and fisheries of fishes of the North Pacific Ocean. Vladivostok, TINRO-Center. 366 p.
Hàbitat És un peix marí, demersal i de clima temperat que viu fins als 680 m de fondària.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.
Distribució geogràfica Es troba al Pacífic nord: des del nord del mar del Japó fins al mar de Bering i el sud-est d'Alaska.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.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.Brodeur, R.D. i P.A. Livingston, 1988. Food habits and diet overlap of various eastern Bering Sea fishes. NOAA Tech. Memo NMFS F/NWC 127:76 p.Dudarev, V.A., 1996. Composition and biomass of the benthic and benthopelagic fishes on the northern Primor'ye shelf. J. Ichthyol. 36(4):307-312.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.Kim, I.S., Y. Choi, C.L. Lee, Y.J. Lee, B.J. Kim i J.H. Kim, 2005. Illustrated book of Korean fishes. Kyo-Hak Pub Co. Seül, Corea del Sud. 615p.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.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.Sokolovskaya, T.G., A.S. Sokolovskii i E.I. Sobolevskii, 1998. A list of fishes of Peter the Great Bay (the Sea of Japan). J. Ichthyol. 38(1):1-11.Tokranov, A.M., 1986. Feeding of giant sculpin Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus Pallas and plain sculpin Myoxocephalus jaok (Cuvier)(Cottidae) in coastal waters of Kamchatka. Vopr. Ikhtiol. 26(6): 980-989.Tokranov, A.M., 1988. Breeding habits of mass species of sculpins in the coastal waters of Kamchatka. Biol. Morya 4: 28-32.Tokranov, A.M., 1992. Features of feeding of benthic predatory fishes of the West Kamchatka Shelf. J. Ichthyol. 32(7):45-55.
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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. Anònim, 2002. Base de dades de la col·lecció de peixos del American Museum of Natural History. American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West, NY 10024-5192, Estats Units.
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