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Cottidae

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n.1.a natural family of fish including the sculpins.
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Noun1.Cottidae - sculpins
family Cottidae
fish family - any of various families of fish
Scorpaenoidea, suborder Scorpaenoidea - mail-cheeked fishes: scorpionfishes; gurnards
Cottus, genus Cottus - type genus of the Cottidae: sculpins
sculpin - any of numerous spiny large-headed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes with broad mouths
genus Hemitripterus, Hemitripterus - sea ravens
genus Myxocephalus, Myxocephalus - grubby
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Icelinus filamentosus)--an important beginning to solving the complicated systematic relationships within the family Cottidae (Richardson, 1981).
Description of early life history stages of the northern sculpin ... by Cartwright, Rachael L. / Fishery Bulletin
9780849319211 Reproductive biology and early life history of fishes in the Ohio River drainage; Aphredoderidae through Cottidae, Moronidae, and Sciaenidae; v.
Reproductive biology and early life history of fishes in the Ohio ... by SciTech Book News
Sculpins of the teleost family Cottidae are nearly ubiquitous in cold-water benthic habitats of the Northern Hemisphere, comprising nearly 200 species in the North Pacific alone (Yabe and Nakabo, 1984; Sheiko and Federov, 2000; Mecklenburg et al.
Triglops dorothy, a new species of sculpin (Teleostei: ... by Pietsch, Theodore W.; Orr, James W. / Fishery Bulletin
 
 
 
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