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wide-eye sculpin

Icelus euryops

Classification

Family
Cottidae

The scaled sculpins, Icelus, are a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Psychrolutidae, the marine sculpins. Most of the fishes in this genus are found in the northern Pacific Ocean but they also occur in the North Atlantic Ocean. Taxonomy The scaled sculpin genus, Icelus was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1845 by the Danish zoologist Henrik Nikolai Krøyer when he described Icelus hamatus as a new species from Belsund in Spitsbergen.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 1