Argyrocottus is a monospecific genus of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. Its only species is Argyrocottus zanderi which is found in the northwestern Pacific Ocean from Japan to the Kuril Islands and in the Sea of Japan. It is found at depths of from 0 to 85 metres (0 to 279 ft). This species grows to a standard length of 9 centimetres (3.5 in).[1] This taxon was first formally described in 1892 by the Russian zoologist Solomon Herzenstein with its type locality given as Korsakov on Sakhalin in the Sea of Okhotsk.[2][3] The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies the genus Argyrocottus within the subfamily Cottinae of the family Cottidae,[4] however, other authors classify the genus within the subfamily Myoxocephalinae of the family Psychrolutidae.[3] although others place the subfamily Myoxocephalinae within the Cottidae.[5]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Family: | Cottidae |
| Subfamily: | Cottinae |
| Genus: | Argyrocottus Herzenstein, 1892 |
| Species: | A. zanderi
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| Binomial name | |
| Argyrocottus zanderi Herzenstein, 1892
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Argyrocottus is a combination of argyros, which means "silver", a reference to the silvery spots on the underside and flanks, and the two silvery stripes, one running from underneath the eye to the base of the lower jaw, and the other from the eye to preoperculum, and Cottus, the type genus of the family Cottidae.[6]
References
edit- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Argyrocottus zanderi". FishBase. August 2022 version.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Argyrocottus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
- ^ a b Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Myoxocephalinae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
- ^ J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 467–495. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
- ^ Olga A. Radchenko; Irina N. Moreva; Anna V. Petrovskaya (2021). "The subfamily Myoxocephalinae of cottid fishes (Cottidae): Genetic divergence and phylogenetic relationships". Journal of Fish Biology. 99 (6): 1857–1868. Bibcode:2021JFBio..99.1857R. doi:10.1111/jfb.14886. PMID 34494656.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (22 October 2022). "Order Perciformes: Suborder Cottoidea: Infraorder Cottales: Family Cottidae (Sculpins)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
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