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Silverspotted Sculpin

Blepsias cirrhosus

Classification

Blepsias cirrhosus, the silverspotted sculpin, is a species of sculpin belonging to the subfamily Hemitripterinae of the family Agonidae. This species is found the northern Pacific Ocean from the Sea of Japan and Alaska to San Miguel Island off southern California. Taxonomy Blepsias cirrhosus was first formally described as Trachinus cirrhosus by the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas with they type locality given as "America; port of Avacha, southeastern Kamchatka; Penzhinskaya Bay, Okhotsk Sea".

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Canada · 101United States of America · 85