pit-head sculpin

Icelinus cavifrons

Classification

Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Cottidae

Icelinus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. These fishes are found in the northern and eastern Pacific Ocean. Taxonomy Icelinus was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1885 by the American ichthyologist David Starr Jordan with its only and type species being Artedius quadriseriatus.

Distribution

pit-head sculpin — (c) Mike Carr, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 26

Sources and credits

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pit-head sculpin

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