Gymnocanthus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. These fishes are found in the northern Pacific, Arctic and northern Atlantic Oceans.
| Gymnocanthus | |
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| Arctic staghorn sculpin (G. tricuspis) | |
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| G. detrisus | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Family: | Cottidae |
| Subfamily: | Cottinae |
| Genus: | Gymnocanthus Swainson, 1839 |
| Type species | |
| Cottus ventralis Cuvier, 1829
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| Synonyms[1] | |
Taxonomy edit
Gymnocanthus was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1839 by the English zoologist William John Swainson with Cottus ventralis, which had been described in 1829 by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier from Kamchatka, as its only species.[1][2] Cottus ventralis was later shown to be a synonym of Cottus pistilliger, a species which Peter Simon Pallas had described in 1814 from Alaska.[2]The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies this genus within the subfamily Cottinae of the family Cottidae,[3] however, other authors classify the genus within the subfamily Icelinae of the family Psychrolutidae.[1]
Etymology edit
Gymnocanthus is a combination of gymnos, meaning "bare" or "naked", and acanthus, which means "thorn" or "spine", Swainson did not explain what this alluded to. It may refer to the head of the type species, which was described as scaleless, although it is actually covered or partially covered with large plates, and which has “few” spines, or it may be a reference to the scaleless preopercular spine and cusps.[4]
Species edit
Gymnocanthus has seven recognized species in this genus, of these five are native to the northern Pacific Ocean, whereas one lives in arctic waters adjacent to the Atlantic, and one in the central Atlantic:[5]
- Gymnocanthus detrisus C. H. Gilbert & Burke, 1912
- Gymnocanthus galeatus T. H. Bean, 1881 (Armorhead sculpin)
- Gymnocanthus herzensteini D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1904
- Gymnocanthus intermedius (Temminck & Schlegel, 1843)
- Gymnocanthus pistilliger (Pallas, 1814) (Threaded sculpin)
- Gymnocanthus tricuspis (J. C. H. Reinhardt, 1830) (Arctic staghorn sculpin)
- Gymnocanthus vandesandei Poll, 1949
References edit
- ^ a b c Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Icelinae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
- ^ a b Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Gymnocanthus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
- ^ J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 467–495. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (22 October 2022). "Order Perciformes: Suborder Cottoidea: Infraorder Cottales: Family Cottidae (Sculpins)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 24 January 2023.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Gymnocanthus in FishBase. December 2012 version.
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