Blepsias cirrhosus, the silverspotted sculpin, is a species of sculpin belonging to the subfamily Hemitripterinae of the family Agonidae. This species is found the northern Pacific Ocean from the Sea of Japan and Alaska to San Miguel Island off southern California.
^A list of fishes of Peter the Great Bay (the Sea of Japan). Japan: J. Ichthyol. 1998. p. 6.
^Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2022). "Blepsias cirrhosus" in FishBase. August 2022 version.
Miguel Island off southern California. Blepsiascirrhosus was first formally described as Trachinus cirrhosus by the German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas...
this genus are: Blepsias bilobus G. Cuvier, 1829 (crested sculpin) Blepsiascirrhosus (Pallas, 1814) (silverspotted sculpin) Blepsias has a spiny preoperculum...
Cuvier mistakenly thought that Blepsiascirrhosus had three lobes and gave it the name Blepsias trilobus. Blepsias bilobus has a deep, compressed body...
following three genera are classified within the subfamily Hemitripterinae: Blepsias Cuvier, 1829 Hemitripterus Cuvier, 1829 Nautichthys Girard, 1858 Hemitripterinae...
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