Myoxocephalus
Encyclopedia
Myoxocephalus is a genus of fish
in the sculpin
family Cottidae
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Fish
Fish are a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic vertebrate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related groups...
in the sculpin
Sculpin
A Sculpin is a fish that belongs to the order Scorpaeniformes, suborder Cottoidei and superfamily Cottoidea, that contains 11 families, 149 genera, and 756 species...
family Cottidae
Cottidae
The Cottidae is a family of demersal fish in the order Scorpaeniformes, suborder Cottoidei . There are about 300 species in 70 genera of Cottidae that are mostly marine and found in shallow coastal waters in the northern and arctic regions...
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Species
- Myoxocephalus aeneus (Mitchill, 1814) — grubby
- Myoxocephalus brandtii (Steindachner, 1867)
- Myoxocephalus incitus — Watanabe, 1958
- Myoxocephalus jaok (Cuvier, 1829) — plain sculpin
- Myoxocephalus matsubarai Watanabe, 1958
- Myoxocephalus niger (Bean, 1881) — warthead sculpin
- Myoxocephalus ochotensis Schmidt, 1929
- Myoxocephalus octodecemspinosus Mitchill, 1815 — longhorn sculpin
- Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus (Pallas, 1814) — great sculpin
- Myoxocephalus quadricornis (Linnaeus, 1758) — fourhorn sculpinFourhorn sculpinThe fourhorn sculpin is a species of fish in the Cottidae family. It is a demersal fish distributed mainly in brackish arctic coastal waters in Canada, Greenland, Russia, and Alaska, and also as a relict in the boreal Baltic Sea...
- Myoxocephalus thompsonii Girard, 1851 — deepwater sculpinDeepwater sculpinThe deepwater sculpin is a freshwater sculpin that inhabits the bottoms of cold, deep freshwater lakes of northern North America. Its distribution ranges from the Great Bear Lake of Canada to the Great Lakes...
- Myoxocephalus scorpioides (Fabricius, 1780) — Arctic sculpin
- Myoxocephalus scorpius (Linnaeus, 1758) — shorthorn sculpin
- Myoxocephalus sinensis (Sauvage, 1873)
- Myoxocephalus stelleri Tilesius, 1811 — Steller's sculpin
- Myoxocephalus tuberculatus Soldatov & Pavlenko, 1922
- Myoxocephalus verrucosus (Bean, 1881) — warty sculpin
- Myoxocephalus yesoensis Snyder, 1911