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Icelus spatula Gilbert & Burke, 1912

To FishBase images (<i>Icelus spatula</i>, by Byrkjedal, I.)

To FishBase images (Icelus spatula, by Byrkjedal, I.)

AphiaID

127200 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127200)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Icelus Krøyer, 1845

Original name

Icelus spatula Gilbert & Burke, 1912

Synonymised names

Icelus spatula spatula Gilbert & Burke, 1912 · unaccepted (senior synonym)

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Subspecies Icelus spatula spatula Gilbert & Burke, 1912 accepted as Icelus spatula Gilbert & Burke, 1912 (senior synonym)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Gilbert, C. H.; Burke, C. V. (1912). Fishes from Bering Sea and Kamchatka. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. v. 30 (Doc. 754) (for 1910): 31-96. [details]

Descriptive notes

Distribution Canadian Arctic it ranges southward into eastern Hudson Bay, along the Labrador coast, through Strait of Belle Isle

Distribution Canadian Arctic it ranges southward into eastern Hudson Bay, along the Labrador coast, through Strait of Belle Isle [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Icelus spatula Gilbert & Burke, 1912. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=127200 on 2025-07-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2008-01-15 17:27:08Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Gilbert, C. H.; Burke, C. V. (1912). Fishes from Bering Sea and Kamchatka. Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. v. 30 (Doc. 754) (for 1910): 31-96. [details]

basis of record van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]

Ecology

ecology source Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details]

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

additional source Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. No. 219. 731 pp. [details]

additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Diet Feeds mainly large bottom invertebrates, rarely small mollusks [details]

Distribution Canadian Arctic it ranges southward into eastern Hudson Bay, along the Labrador coast, through Strait of Belle Isle [details]

Habitat benthic [details]

Habitat Found on sand or sandy-mud bottoms with stones with salinities of 24.7-34.2 ppt. [details]

Definitions

Language	Name
English	spatulate sculpin	[details]
French	icèle spatulée	[details]
Norwegian Bokmål	spateltornulke	[details]
Norwegian Nynorsk	spateltornulke	[details]
Russian	Восточный двурогий ицел	[details]