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northern sculpin

Icelinus borealis

Classification

Family
Cottidae

Icelinus borealis, the northern sculpin or comb sculpin, is a species of fish in the family Cottidae. It can be found in the northeastern Pacific Ocean along the western coast of North America. Taxonomy Icelinus borealis was first formally described in 1896 by the American ichthyologist Charles Henry Gilbert with its type locality given as north and south of the Aleutians and from Bristol Bay in Alaska.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Canada · 91United States of America · 25