buffalo sculpin

Enophrys bison

Classification

Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Cottidae

Enophrys bison, the buffalo sculpin, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. It is found in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy The buffalo sculpin was first formally described as Aspicottus bison in 1854 by the French zoologist Charles Frédéric Girard with its type locality given as San Francisco.

Distribution

Loading map…

Countries in the Picchu catalog

Sources and credits

Photo(c) Ken-ichi Ueda, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionEnophrys bison, Wikipedia contributors

buffalo sculpin

More from the same family

Atlantic Hook-ear Sculpin

padded sculpin

scalyhead sculpin

smoothhead sculpin

rosylip sculpin

spinynose sculpin

roughback sculpin

sharpnose sculpin