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bigeye sculpin

Triglops nybelini

Classification

Family
Cottidae

Triglops is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. These fishes are found in the North Pacific, Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans. Taxonomy Triglops was first proposed as a monospecific subgenus of Cottus in 1830 by the Danish zoologist Johan Reinhardt when he described Triglops pingelii, giving its type locality as Quanneoen, south of Frederikshaab in western Greenland.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Canada · 45Norway · 2