Artediellus

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Phylum:Chordata
Suborder:Cottoidei
Artediellus
Temporal range: Middle Miocene to present
Hamecon (A. scaber)
Arctic Hookear Sculpin (A. unicinatus)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Suborder: Cottoidei
Family: Psychrolutidae
Genus: Artediellus
D. S. Jordan, 1885
Type species
Cottus uncinatus
Synonyms[1]

Artediellus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Psychrolutidae, the marine sculpins. Most of the fishes in this genus are found in the northern Pacific Ocean but they also occur in the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans.

Artediellus was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1885 by the American ichthyologist David Starr Jordan with Cottus uncinatus, which was described in 1834 from Greenland by the Danish zoologist Johan Reinhardt, as its only species and designated as its type species.[1][2] The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies the genus Artediellus within the subfamily Cottinae of the family Cottidae,[3] however, other authors classify the genus within the subfamily Psychrolutinae of the family Psychrolutidae.[1]

Etymology

Artediellus is a diminutive of Artedius, a genus of similar fishes but these do not have the naked body and head of Artediellus.[4]

Species

There are currently fifteen recognized species in this genus,[5] which are split into two subgenera:[4]

The fossil species †Artediellus simplex Nazarkin, 2019 is known from the Middle Miocene of Sakhalin, Russia.[6]

Characteristics

Distribution and habitat

References

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