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Megalocottus
Sign in to saveMegalocottus is a small genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. These fishes are found in the western Pacific Ocean.
Species
Belligerent Sculpin
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderScorpaeniformes
- FamilyCottidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
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- Family
- Cottidae
- Collections
- USNM
- Recorded in
- United States, Russia
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Megalocottus is a small genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. These fishes are found in the western Pacific Ocean.
==Taxonomy== Megalocottus was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1861 by the American biologist Theodore Gill with Cottus paltycephalus which had been described in 1814 by Peter Simon Pallas from Kamchatka and the Sea of Okhotsk as its only species. The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies this genus in the subfamily Cottinae of the family Cottidae but other authorities classify it in the subfamily Myoxocephalinae of the family Psychrolutidae, although others place the subfamily Myoxocephalinae within the Cottidae.
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