Alcichthys is a monospecific genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cottidae, the "typical" sculpins. The only species in the genus is Alcichthys elongatus, which occurs in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Alcichthys is a monospecific genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cottidae, the "typical" sculpins. The only species in the genus is Alcichthys elongatus, which occurs in the northwestern Pacific Ocean.
==Taxonomy== Alcichthys was first proposed as a genus in 1904 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Edwin Chapin Starks with its only species being Centridermichthys alcicornis designated as its type species. C. alcicornis had been described in 1890 by the Russian zoologist Solomon Herzenstein with its type locality given as Tokyo, but is now considered to be a junior synonym of Centridermichthys elongatus which had been described by the Austrian ichthyologist Franz Steindachner in 1881 from the Sea of Japan. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies the genus Alcichthys within the subfamily Cottinae of the family Cottidae, however, other authors classify the genus within the subfamily Psychrolutinae of the family Psychrolutidae.
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