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	<dwc:Genus>Acentrogobius</dwc:Genus>
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	<commonName xml:lang='en'>Giant wrymouth</commonName>
	<commonName xml:lang='et'>Hiidkõversuu</commonName>
	<commonName xml:lang='fr'>Terrassier géant</commonName>
	<commonName xml:lang='ru'>криворот гигантский</commonName>
	<synonym relationship='synonym'>Delolepis gigantea (Kittlitz, 1858)</synonym>
	<synonym relationship='synonym'>Delolepis giganteus (Kittlitz, 1858)</synonym>
	<synonym relationship='synonym'>Delolepis virgatus Bean, 1882</synonym>
	<synonym relationship='synonym'>Ophidium giganteum Kittlitz, 1858</synonym>
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	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=276&amp;speccode=54155'>Robins, C.R., R.M. Bailey, C.E. Bond, J.R. Brooker, E.A. Lachner, R.N. Lea and W.B. Scott0 A list of common and scientific names of fishes from the United States and Canada. Am. Fish. Soc. Spec. Publ. (12)1-174. (Ref. 276)</reference>
	<reference isbn='0-395-26873-9' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=2850&amp;speccode=54155'>Eschmeyer, W.N., E.S. Herald and H. Hammann0 A field guide to Pacific coast fishes of North America. Boston (MA, USA): Houghton Mifflin Company. xii+336 p. (Ref. 2850)</reference>
	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=4925&amp;speccode=54155'>Clemens, W.A. and G.V. Wilby0 Fishes of the Pacific coast of Canada. 2nd ed. Fish. Res. Bd. Canada Bull. (68):443 p. (Ref. 4925)</reference>
	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=6876&amp;speccode=54155'>Quast, J.C. and E.L. Hall0 List of fishes of Alaska and adjacent waters with a guide to some of their literature. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS SSRF-658, 47 p. (Ref. 6876)</reference>
	<reference isbn='0-660-10459-8' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=6885&amp;speccode=54155'>Hart, J.L.0 Pacific fishes of Canada. Bull. Fish. Res. Board Can. 180:740 p. (Ref. 6885)</reference>
	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=10937&amp;speccode=54155'>Anonymous0 Fish collection database of the University of British Columbia Fish Museum Fish Museum. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. (Ref. 10937)</reference>
	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=11366&amp;speccode=54155'>Evermann, B.W. and E.L. Goldsborough0 The fishes of Alaska. Bull. U.S. Bur. Fish. 26: 219-360. (Ref. 11366)</reference>
	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=11376&amp;speccode=54155'>Wilimovsky, N.J.0 List of the fishes of Alaska. Stanford Ichthyol. Bull. 4(5):279-294. (Ref. 11376)</reference>
	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=11377&amp;speccode=54155'>Wilimovsky, N.J.0 Inshore fish fauna of the Aleutian archipelago. Proc. Alaska Sci. Conf. 14:172-190. (Ref. 11377)</reference>
	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=12204&amp;speccode=54155'>Coad, B.W.0 Encyclopedia of Canadian fishes. Canadian Museum of Nature and Canadian Sportfishing Productions Inc. Singapore. (Ref. 12204)</reference>
	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=26282&amp;speccode=54155'>Eschmeyer, W.N. (ed.)0 Catalog of fishes. Special Publication, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco. 3 vols. 2905 p. (Ref. 26282)</reference>
	<reference isbn='0-920080-75-8.' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=27436&amp;speccode=54155'>Lamb, A. and P. Edgell0 Coastal fishes of the Pacific northwest. Madeira Park, (BC, Canada): Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd., 224 p. (Ref. 27436)</reference>
	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=38732&amp;speccode=54155'>Anonymous0 Fish collection database of the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution). Smithsonian Institution-Division of Fishes. (Ref. 38732)</reference>
	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=41414&amp;speccode=54155'>Anonymous0 Fish collection database of the American Museum of Natural History. American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West , NY 10024-5192, USA. (Ref. 41414)</reference>
	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=42125&amp;speccode=54155'>Anonymous0 Fish collection of the Royal British Columbia Museum. Royal British Columbia Museum, 675 Belleville Street, Victoria BC, Canada V8V 1X4. (Ref. 42125)</reference>
	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=47438&amp;speccode=54155'>Anonymous0 Fish collection of the Royal Ontario Museum. Royal Ontario Museum. (Ref. 47438)</reference>
	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=48321&amp;speccode=54155'>Ricker, W.E.0 Russian-English dictionary for students of fisheries and aquatic biology. Fisheries Research Board of Canada, Ottawa. (Ref. 48321)</reference>
	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=48957&amp;speccode=54155'>Mecklenburg, C.W.0 Family Cryptacanthodidae Gill 1861 - wrymouths. Calif. Acad. Sci. Annotated Checklists of Fishes (8):4. (Ref. 48957)</reference>
	<reference isbn='1-888569-61-1' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=52299&amp;speccode=54155'>Nelson, J.S., E.J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L.T. Findley, C.R. Gilbert, R.N. Lea and J.D. Williams0 Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico. American Fisheries Society, Special Publication 29, Bethesda, Maryland. ix, 386 p. + 1 CD. (Ref. 52299)</reference>
	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=80565&amp;speccode=54155'>Eschmeyer, W.N. (ed.)0 Catalog of fishes. Updated database version of March 2009. Catalog databases as made available to FishBase in March 2009. (Ref. 80565)</reference>
	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=87495&amp;speccode=54155'>Antonenko, D.V., S.F. Solomatov and V.V. Panchenko0 On occurrence and biology of Berg Wrymouth &lt;i&gt;Cryptacanthodes bergi&lt;/i&gt; (Cryptacanthodidae) in the North-Western part of the sea of Japan. J. Ichthyol. 51(2):173-177. (Ref. 87495)</reference>
	<reference isbn='978-1-55017-471-7' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=94401&amp;speccode=54155'>Lamb, A. and P. Edgell0 Coastal fishes of the Pacific northwest. Revised and expanded second edition. Madeira Park (BC, Canada): Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd., 335 p. (Ref. 94401)</reference>
	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=101194&amp;speccode=54155'>Patzner, R.A.0 Reproductive strategies of fish. pp. 311-350.  In  Rocha, M.J., A. Arukwe and B.G. Kapoor (eds). Fish reproduction: cytology, biology and ecology. Science Publisher, Inc. Oxford. 631 p. (Ref. 101194)</reference>
	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=105471&amp;speccode=54155'>eElurikkus0 eElurikkus koondab ühte portaali Eesti eluslooduse andmed. http://elurikkus.ut.ee/ (Ref. 105471)</reference>
	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=112754&amp;speccode=54155'>Pietsch, T.W. and J.W. Orr0 Fishes of the Salish Sea: a compilation and distributional analysis. NOAA Professional Paper NMFS 18: 106 p. (Ref. 112754)</reference>
	<reference isbn='' url='http://www.fishbase.org/references/FBRefSummary.php?id=120809&amp;speccode=54155'>Sinclair, E.H., W.A. Walker and P.J. Gearin0 The diet of free-ranging male Steller sea lions (&lt;i&gt;Eumetopias jubatus&lt;/i&gt;) in the eastern Bering Sea: a retrospective analysis based on stomach contents of an endangered pinniped. Canadian Journal of Zoology 97(3):195-202. (Ref. 120809)</reference><dataObject>
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