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Intermediate staghorn sculpin

Gymnocanthus intermedius

Classification

Family
Cottidae

Gymnocanthus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. These fishes are found in the northern Pacific, Arctic and northern Atlantic Oceans. Taxonomy Gymnocanthus was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1839 by the English zoologist William Swainson with Cottus ventralis, which had been described in 1829 by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier from Kamchatka, as its only species.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog