Xiphister atropurpureus

Xiphister atropurpureus (Kittlitz, 1858). Black Prickleback. To 32.3 cm (12.7 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Kodiak Island, Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to near Isla San Martín (30°26’N, 116°07’W), northern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 27 m (90 ft) (min.: Miller and Lea 1972; max.: Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington).Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 189, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/557800