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Scorpaenichthys marmoratus (Ayres) 
One 93 -mm specimen taken intertidally by 
divers using rotenone in the vicinity of Samsing 
Cove, near Sitka, on 18 March 1964 (AB 64- 
954). 
According to Clemens and Wilby (1961) the 
distribution is from southern California to 
northern British Colombia, and individuals are 
common in the Queen Charlotte Islands. Our 
collection is the first recorded from Alaska and 
extends the known range northward about 
340 km. 
Triglops metopias Gilbert and Burke 
One 119-mm specimen taken in a shrimp try 
net on a silty-sand bottom at approximately 51 
feet (15.5 meters) in Auke Bay, 27 September 
1963 (AB 63-182). Wilimovsky (1954) gives 
the distribution as Bering Sea, and later (1964) 
reports it from Amchitka Island and the Semi- 
sopochnoi Island-Petrel Bank vicinity. The Auke 
Bay Laboratory also has collections from near 
the Shumagin Islands. 
The Auke Bay specimen resembles those, in- 
cluding the type, described from the Bering Sea 
by Gilbert and Burke (1912), but has counts 
that are one or two units, depending on the 
character, below the ranges cited for rays of the 
soft dorsal, anal, and pectoral fins and for scutes 
along the lateral line; it also has 21 dorsal scutes 
as compared with "26 or 27” in the type. The 
record for Auke Bay is the first for the species 
in the eastern Gulf of Alaska and extends the 
known range eastward about 2900 km. 
AGONIDAE 
Bothragonus sivani (Steindachner) 
One 51 -mm specimen taken intertidally by 
divers using rotenone in the vicinity of Samsing 
Cove, near Sitka, on 18 March 1964 (AB 64- 
954). 
Clemens and Wilby (1961) give the range as 
California to the Queen Charlotte Islands, and 
Hubbard and Reeder (1965) report the species 
from Kodiak Island. 
LIPARIDIDAE 
Lipariscus nanus Gilbert 
Four specimens, 26-32 mm, taken in three 
collections made with an Isaac-Kidd trawl at 
night at 100 meters in Lynn Canal. Two collec- 
tions (AB 64-6 3, AB 64-999) are from near 
Point Sherman, and one (AB 64-72) is from 
near Point Retreat. 
Gilbert (1915) obtained five specimens, in- 
cluding the type, from Monterey Bay, Cali- 
fornia. The Lynn Canal collections represent a 
northward extension of range of about 2600 km. 
STICHAEIDAE 
Anisarchus medius (Reinhardt) 
The species was formerly in the genus 
Ltimpenus Reinhardt, but Makushok (1958) 
places it in Anisarchus Gill. The Auke Bay 
Laboratory has several collections from the Gulf 
of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands, and one 
collection of 54 specimens, 59-117 mm, taken 
in a shrimp trawl at 60-90 fathoms (32.8-49.2 
meters) in Auke Bay on 25 June 1962 (AB 62- 
226 ). 
Wilimovsky (1954) gives the range of the 
species as "Arctic Alaska-Bering Sea; North 
Atlantic Ocean”; Andriyashev (1954) states 
that the species is circumpolar and occurs in the 
Sea of Okhotsk and the northern Sea of Japan. 
The Auke Bay collection extends the known 
range eastward about 1400 km. 
Chirolophus nugator (Jordan and Williams) 
One 57-mm specimen taken intertidally by 
divers using rotenone in the vicinity of Samsing 
Cove, near Sitka, on 18 March 1964 (AB 64- 
954). 
Clemens and Wilby (1961) give the range as 
from northern California to the Strait of 
Georgia. Hubbard and Reeder (1965) report 
the species from Kodiak Island. 
Lumpenus jahricii (Valenciennes) 
One 215-mrn specimen captured by hand on 
a beach at low tide at Auke Bay on 1 December 
1963 (AB 63-234). The Auke Bay Laboratory 
also has one 255 -mm specimen from Kachemak 
Bay, Cook Inlet (AB 64-738). 
Andriyashev (1954) lists the species as 
amphiboreal and occurring in the Chukchi Sea 
and the northern Sea of Japan; Wilimovsky 
(1954) gives the range as "Arctic Alaska- 
Bering Sea; North Atlantic Ocean.” 
