daubed shanny

Leptoclinus maculatus

Lumpenid Fish beneath the Pacific Ocean

Cross-climate
Polar
Temperate
Circumpolar Arctic
Northern Hemisphere
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific Ocean
East Asia
Europe
North America
Polar regions
Elongated
Medium
Cold-water fish

The daubed shanny (Leptoclinus maculatus), also known as the spotted snakeblenny, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Lumpenidae, the eel pricklebacks. It is native to the coasts of Northern Atlantic Ocean and Northern Pacific Ocean.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Perches and Allies
Family: Lumpenidae
Genus: Leptoclinus
Maximum length: 20 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: elongated
Distribution: Circumpolar: Arctic to temperate waters; northern hemisphere. Arctic Alaska to Sea of Okhotsk, northern Sea of Japan, Unalaska Island in the Aleutian chain and Puget Sound, Washington, USA. North Atlantic: Arctic to Labrador in Canada; along Scandinavia from Skagerrak to Finnmarken, common at Murmansk, White Sea, Iceland and Greenland (Ref. 10006 ). The Pacific form is sometimes treated as a subspecies Leptoclinus maculatus diaphanocarus (Ref. 51666 ).

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