Porocottus
Genus of fishes
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Porocottus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. These fishes are found in the northern and northwestern Pacific Ocean.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Suborder: | Cottoidei |
| Family: | Psychrolutidae |
| Genus: | Porocottus Gill, 1859 |
| Type species | |
| Porocottus quadrifilis Gill, 1859[1] | |
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Taxonomy
Porocottus was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1859 by the American biologist Theodore Gill[1] when he described Porocottus quadrifilis from the Bering Strait.[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 Myoxocephalinae of the family Psychrolutidae.[1]
Species
There are currently nine recognized species in this genus:[4]
- Porocottus allisi (D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1904)[5]
- Porocottus camtschaticus (Schmidt, 1916)
- Porocottus coronatus Yabe, 1992
- Porocottus japonicus Schmidt, 1935
- Porocottus leptosomus Muto, Y. Choi & Yabe, 2002
- Porocottus mednius (T. H. Bean, 1898) (Pored sculpin)
- Porocottus minutus (Pallas, 1814)
- Porocottus quadrifilis Gill, 1859
- Porocottus tentaculatus (Kner, 1868)