Icelus spiniger
| Icelus spiniger | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Division: | Teleostei |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Suborder: | Cottoidei |
| Family: | Psychrolutidae |
| Genus: | Icelus |
| Species: | I. spiniger |
| Binomial name | |
| Icelus spiniger C. H. Gilbert, 1896 | |
Icelus spiniger, the thorny sculpin, is a marine fish in the family Cottidae. It can be found throughout the North Pacific, the eastern Sea of Okhotsk to Cape Navarin in the Bering Sea to Agattu Island in the Aleutian island chain and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.[1]
Size
[edit]This species reaches a length of 24.0 cm (9.4 in).[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ Eschmeyer, W.N., E.S. Herald and H. Hammann, 1983. A field guide to Pacific coast fishes of North America. Boston (MA, USA): Houghton Mifflin Company. xii+336 p.
- ↑ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Icelus spiniger". FishBase. February 2015 version.
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