Blepsias
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| Blepsias | |
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| Crested sculpin (B. bilobus) | |
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| Silverspotted sculpin (B. cirrhosus) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Suborder: | Cottoidei |
| Family: | Agonidae |
| Subfamily: | Hemitripterinae |
| Genus: | Blepsias G. Cuvier, 1829 |
| Type species | |
| Trachinus cirrhosus | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Blepsias is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Agonidae, the poachers and related fishes. These fishes are found in the coastal northern Pacific Ocean from Japan to California.
Blepsias was first proposed as a genus by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier with Trachinus cirrhosus, which had originally been described in 1814 by Peter Simon Pallas from Kamchatka, as the type species.[1] The genus is included in the subfamily Hemitripterinae of the family Agonidae.[2] Cuvier used a Greek name for a fish, as was his habit, for the name of the new genus.[3]
Species
The recognized species in this genus are:[4]
- Blepsias bilobus G. Cuvier, 1829 (crested sculpin)
- Blepsias cirrhosus (Pallas, 1814) (silverspotted sculpin)