. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1986 Peden and Hughes: Marine Fishes off Canada's West Coast COTTIDAE Icelus spiniger Gilbert Thorny Sculpin Hart (1973) refers to a specimen (NMC 65-330) captured at 54°37'N, 133°55'W(Barraclough 1971) as the only record of Icelus spiniger horn British Colum- bia. This locality would have been "Canadian" if the international boundary off Cape Muzon and claimed by Canada extended westward. However, recent charts (Canadian Hydrographic Service 1982) exclude the location from territorial fishing waters. A second specimen was listed by Barraclough (1971)
. The Canadian field-naturalist. 1986 Peden and Hughes: Marine Fishes off Canada's West Coast COTTIDAE Icelus spiniger Gilbert Thorny Sculpin Hart (1973) refers to a specimen (NMC 65-330) captured at 54°37'N, 133°55'W(Barraclough 1971) as the only record of Icelus spiniger horn British Colum- bia. This locality would have been "Canadian" if the international boundary off Cape Muzon and claimed by Canada extended westward. However, recent charts (Canadian Hydrographic Service 1982) exclude the location from territorial fishing waters. A second specimen was listed by Barraclough (1971) off Alice Arm, Vancouver Island at 50°28'N, 127°29'20"W (UBC 65-133), however our pilot books (Chivas 1974; Jones 1974) and gazetteer (Canadian Permanent Committee on Geographic Names 1966) list Alice Arm much further north at approximately 55° N and 129°W. Although Barraclough may have meant "Port Alice", British Columbia, we follow Hart (1973) and reject that Vancouver Island record. Coincidentally, we obtained another specimen (NMC 81-117) from Alice Arm as our first verifiable record for the Province. This specimen, 81 mm , was taken on "side of the inlet near head of deep trough . . about 4 km of AHce Arm Post Office", 7 September 1980, by Dobrocky Seatech Ltd. Since that time we have also received five more speci- mens (BCPM 982-333, BCPM 982-334) taken in Alice Arm by Randy Kashino of Dobrocky Seatech Ltd. Recently we received our most southerly record for the species through the courtesy of Dobrocky Seatech Ltd. and the Institute of Ocean Sciences, Sidney, Brit- ish Columbia. This 81 mm specimen (BCPM 984-145) was taken in the La Perouse Bank area, 48°'N, 125°'W, in 133 m, with a bottom sled. May 1981. Icelus spiniger is readily separated from other sculpins of the Province because of the conspic- uous postorbital and occipital spines, the row of scales below the dorsal fin with a very large conspicuous spine on ea
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