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Arctic shanny

Stichaeus punctatus

Classification

The Arctic shanny (Stichaeus punctatus) is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Stichaeidae, the pricklebacks and shannies. This species occurs in the North Pacific, Arctic and western North Atlantic Oceans. Taxonomy The Arctic shanny was first formally described in 1780 as Blennius punctatus by the Danish zoologist Johan Christian Fabricius, giving its type locality as Western Greenland.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Canada · 111United States of America · 27France · 2