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Sculpins and Allies
Cottoidei
Cottoidei is a suborder of ray-finned fishes which, according to the 5th edition of Fishes of the World, is placed within the order Scorpaeniformes, alongside the scorpionfishes, flatheads, eelpouts, sticklebacks and related fishes.
14 branches of this suborder, most-observed first · about 911 known species
Fathead Sculpins
familyPsychrolutidae
Typical Sculpins
familyCottidae
Greenlings
familyHexagrammidae
Longfin Sculpins
familyJordaniidae
Snailfishes
familyLiparidae
Lumpfishes
familyCyclopteridae
Poachers
familyAgonidae
Irish lords
familyHemilepidotidae
Sea Ravens
familyHemitripteridae
Grunt Sculpins
familyRhamphocottidae
Sailfin sculpins
familyNautichthyidae
Sablefishes
familyAnoplopomatidae
Combfishes
familyZaniolepididae
Sandfishes
familyTrichodontidae
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1303567.