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]
Icelus spiniger | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
Family: | Cottidae |
Genus: | Icelus |
Species: | I. spiniger
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Binomial name | |
Icelus spiniger C. H. Gilbert, 1896
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Size
editThis 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.