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Sculpin

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Fish of the superfamily Cottoidea
Not to be confused with skulpin.
Sculpin
Myoxocephalus octodecemspinosus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Suborder: Cottoidei
Superfamily: Cottoidea
Gill, 1889[1]

A sculpin is a type of fish that belongs to the superfamily Cottoidea in the order Perciformes.[2] As of 2006, this superfamily contains 7 families, 94 genera, and 387 species.[3]

Sculpins occur in many types of habitat, including ocean and freshwater zones. They live in rivers, submarine canyons, kelp forests, and shallow littoral habitat types, such as tidepools.[2]

Families and subfamilies

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Families include:[3] [4]

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References

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  1. ^ Mamoru Yabe (1985). "Comaprative Osteology and Myology of the Superfamily Cottoidea Pisces:Scorpaeniformes), and its Phylogenetic Classification". Memoirs off the Faculty of Fishes Hokkaido University. 32 (1): 1–130. S2CID 81835479.
  2. ^ a b Kane, E. A. and T. E. Higham. (2012). Life in the flow lane: differences in pectoral fin morphology suggest transitions in station-holding demand across species of marine sculpin. Archived 2020年10月22日 at the Wayback Machine Zoology (Jena) 115(4), 223–32.
  3. ^ a b J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 467–495. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the original on 2019年04月08日. Retrieved 2022年12月19日.
  4. ^ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3882年1月1日 . PMID 25543675.

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