Steller's sculpin | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
Family: | Cottidae |
Genus: | Myoxocephalus |
Species: | M. stelleri |
Binomial name | |
Myoxocephalus stelleri Tilesius, 1811 |
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Synonyms | |
Cottus stelleri |
Cottus stelleri
Cottus marmoratus
Steller's sculpin (Myoxocephalus stelleri), also known as frog sculpin, is a species of sculpin in the fish family Cottidae. The species is native to the northern Pacific, from the Aleutian Islands to the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan. Described by Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau in 1811, it is the type species of the genus Myoxocephalus.