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that the northern inside waters of Southeastern 
Alaska harbor a cold-water enclave of demersal 
species that has affinities with faunas of the 
Aleutian Islands, Bering Sea, or regions even 
farther to the north or west. But any firm con- 
clusion is premature because our collecting 
methods have not been standardized, numerous 
critical localities have not been sampled, and 
available data on distributions are not com- 
pletely analyzed. 
My authorities for species distributions are 
principally Wilimovsky (1954, 1964), Clemens 
and Wilby (1961), and Hubbard and Reeder 
(1965). Although Wilimovsky’ s "Provisional 
Keys to the Fishes of Alaska" (1958) is ex- 
tremely useful for preliminary identifications of 
the Alaskan fish fauna, the manuscript was 
given limited distribution and is no longer 
available (Wilimovsky, personal communica- 
tion) . 
Collection numbers for the fish collection of 
the Auke Bay Laboratory are in the form of two 
numbers joined by a hyphen and preceded by 
the letters AB. All lengths are standard. 
HEXAGRAMMIDAE 
Hexagrammos octogrammus (Pallas) 
Two collections: two pelagic-stage juveniles, 
43-45 mm, from a salmon trap near Pt. Adol- 
phus, Icy Strait, on 21 June 1955 (AB 55-2); 
and three specimens, 105-182 mm, taken inter- 
tidally by divers using rotenone in the vicinity 
of Samsing Cove, near Sitka, on 18 March 1964 
(AB 64-954). 
Wilimovsky (1954) gives the range as the 
Bering Sea to the Gulf of Alaska, including the 
Sea of Okhotsk. Quast (I960) gives the range 
as from northeastern Japan to Yakutat Bay, 
Alaska. An old record of Bean (1881) gives the 
locality of "Old Sitka" for "Hexagrammus 
(sic) ordinatus (Cope) Bean,” a junior syn- 
onym of H. octogrammus (Quast, I960). 
Evermann and Goldsborough (1907) cite 
collections of this species made in 1903 from 
Snug Harbor and Union Bay, Alaska, but the 
location of these two places is uncertain. The 
citation suggests the localities of Snug Anchor- 
age and Union Bay, about 65 km northwest of 
Ketchikan. The fact that both localities in the 
Ketchikan vicinity are on the cruise track of the 
U. S. fishery vessel "Albatross” that made col- 
lections in 1903 in Southeastern Alaska (de- 
duced from Fassett, 1905) supports the theory 
that the collections originated near Ketchikan. 
Correspondence with Robert Kanazawa of the 
U. S. National Museum discloses, however, that 
the Snug Harbor specimen originated from the 
Kodiak Island-Cook Inlet vicinity and that the 
U. S. National Museum has no specimen of H. 
octogrammus or record of a specimen from a 
locality named Union Bay. Furthermore, the 
only locality named Union Bay visited by the 
"Albatross" on the 1903 cruise was in British 
Columbia. Very likely, therefore, no collections 
of this species were made in the Ketchikan 
vicinity. The southernmost authenticated record 
is for Sitka. 
COTTIDAE 
Artediellus pacipcus Gilbert 
Three collections: one 66-mm specimen taken 
in a shrimp trawl at 64-75 fathoms (117-137 
meters) in the vicinity of the Barren Islands 
near the mouth of Cook Inlet on 7 August 1963 
(AB 64-726); and two collections, 5 and 12 
specimens, taken in a shrimp try net over 
muddy-sand bottom at 50-90 feet (15.2-27.4 
meters) in Auke Bay on 25 June 1962 and 27 
September 1963 (AB 62-226 and 63-182). 
Distribution includes the northern Sea of 
Japan and Sea of Okhotsk (Schmidt, 1950) ; 
the southern Gulf of Anadyr (Andriyashev, 
1937) ; and St. Paul Island (eastern Bering 
Sea) and Karluk (Kodiak Island) (Jordan and 
Evermann, 1898). The Auke Bay specimens 
represent an eastward extension of the range of 
about 1130 km. Differences in meristic counts 
between the Auke Bay specimens and those cited 
by Jordan and Evermann (1898), which are 
presumably from regions between Kamchatka 
and Kodiak, do not appear to be important 
(Table 1). 
Artedius harringtoni (Starks) 
Numerous collections from Skowl Arm, 
Prince of Wales Island, taken in shrimp traps 
fished subtidally; and 56 specimens, 23-80 mm, 
taken intertidally by divers using rotenone in 
