Sculpin
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A sculpin is a type of fish that belongs to the superfamily Cottoidea in the order Perciformes.[1] As of 2025, this superfamily contains 5 families, 112 genera, and 405 species.[2][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.[1]
Families and subfamilies
Families include:[4]
- Family Rhamphocottidae Jordan & Gilbert, 1883 (horsehead sculpins)
- Family Cottidae Bonaparte, 1831 (sculpins)
- Family Psychrolutidae Günther, 1861 (marine sculpins)
- Family Jordaniidae Jordan & Evermann, 1898 (longfin sculpins)
- Family Agonidae Swainson, 1839 (poachers)
- Subfamily Agoninae Swainson, 1839 (sturgeon poachers)
- Subfamily Anoplagoninae Gill, 1861 (alligator fishes)
- Subfamily Bathyagoninae Lindberg, 1971 (starsnouts)
- Subfamily Brachyopsinae Jordan & Evermann, 1898 (uppermouth poachers)
- Subfamily Hypsagoninae Gill, 1861 (dragon poachers)
- Subfamily Bothragoninae Lindberg, 1971 (rockheads)
- Subfamily Hemitripterinae Gill, 1865 (sailfin sculpins)
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References
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- ↑ 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. Template:Webarchive Zoology (Jena) 115(4), 223–32.
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