Steller's sculpin

Steller's sculpin
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Cottidae
Genus: Myoxocephalus
Species: M. stelleri
Binomial name
Myoxocephalus stelleri
Synonyms

Cottus stelleri
Cottus marmoratus

Steller's sculpin (Myoxocephalus stelleri), also known as frog sculpin, is a species of sculpin in the fish family Cottidae.[2] The species is native to the northern Pacific, from the Aleutian Islands to the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan.[3] Described by Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau in 1811, it is the type species of the genus Myoxocephalus.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Myoxocephalus stelleri Tilesius, 1811". GBIF.org. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
  2. ↑ "Myoxocephalus stelleri Tilesius, 1811". ITIS. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
  3. ↑ Torres, Armi G. "Myoxocephalus stelleri, Steller's sculpin". FishBase. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
  4. ↑ Appeltans, Ward (19 April 2005). "Myoxocephalus stelleri Tilesius, 1811". WoRMS. Retrieved 18 May 2014.


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