Myoxocephalus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. They are found in the northern Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, with a few species in lakes.
^Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Myoxocephalinae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2 February 2023.
few species in lakes. Myoxocephalus was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1811 by Tilesius when he described Myoxocephalus stelleri from Kamchatka...
subspecies (Myoxocephalus quadricornis thompsonii), while other authors maintained it as a species within the same genus (Myoxocephalus thompsonii)....
of the genus Myoxocephalus and the second most common in the Bering Sea. It can grow to a size of 80 cm and 9 kg weight. Myoxocephalus polyacanthocephalus...
genus Myoxocephalus, they proposed that the fourhorn sculpin be reclassified as a member of the genus Megalocottus. The deepwater sculpin Myoxocephalus thompsonii...
from March until June. "Myoxocephalus aenaeus Grubby". NatureServe. Retrieved 3 February 2023. Nicolas Bailly (2008). "Myoxocephalus aenaeus (Mitcill, 1814)"...
Myoxocephalus tuberculatus is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. The species is endemic to the...
Fabricius but most likely alludes to the similarity to Myoxocephalus scorpius. Myoxocephalus scorpioides has dorsal fins which are supported by 8 or...
Long-spined sea scorpion (Taurulus bubalis) Short-spined sea scorpion (Myoxocephalus scorpius) Nepidae, an insect, commonly known as a water scorpion This...
is known about this species. "Myoxocephalus ochotensis Schmidt, 1929". GBIF.org. Retrieved 5 May 2014. "Myoxocephalus ochotensis Schmidt, 1929". ITIS...
in the world and was also given the nickname, 'fathead sculpin'.[1] Myoxocephalus thompsonii, deepwater sculpin, have even been reported in Lake Ontario...
classified this species in the monospecific subgenus Taurulus of the genus Myoxocephalus, Taurulus is now recognised as a valid genus. The 5th edition of Fishes...
taxon to the genus Myoxocephalus. In 2020 workers undertook a comparison of the Mitochondrial DNA of the fourhorn sculpin (Myoxocephalus quadricornis) and...
polychaete) and fishes such as cod, herring and the fourhorn sculpin, Myoxocephalus quadricornis. The increasing loss of oxygen in the Baltic Sea bottoms...
from Russia, Japan and Korea, the pholid Pholis picta and the cottid Myoxocephalus brandtii, both from Russian waters, and the sebastid Sebastes schlegelii...
M. H.; Reist, J. D. (2003). "First Record of the Deepwater Sculpin, Myoxocephalus thompsonii, from George Lake in Whiteshell Provincial Park, Manitoba"...
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