Myoxocephalus brandtii, the snowy sculpin, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. This species is found in the northwest Pacific, with a range extending from the Sea of Okhotsk to Hokkaido and the Sea of Japan.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Cottidae |
| Genus: | Myoxocephalus |
| Species: | M. brandtii
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| Myoxocephalus brandtii (Steindachner, 1867)[1]
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Myoxocephalus brandtii was first formally described in 1867 as Cottus brandtii by the Austrian ichthyologist Franz Steindachner with its type locality given as the mouth of the Amur in Russia.[3]
It inhabits relatively shallow coastal waters (less than 60 metres (200 ft)), and can grow to a length of 40 centimetres (16 in).[2]
Lepeophtheirus elegans is a species of sea lice reported on M. brandtii.[4]
References
edit- ^ "Myoxocephalus brandtii (Steindachner, 1867)". GBIF.org. Retrieved May 2, 2014.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Myoxocephalus brandtii". FishBase. August 2022 version.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Myoxocephalus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
- ^ Venmathi Maran, Balu Alagar; Moon, Seong Yong; Ohtsuka, Susumu; Oh, Sung-Yong; Soh, Ho Young; Myoung, Jung-Goo; Iglikowska, Anna; Boxshall, Geoffrey Allan (2013). "The caligid life cycle: new evidence from Lepeophtheirus elegans reconciles the cycles of Caligus and Lepeophtheirus (Copepoda: Caligidae)". Parasite. 20: 15. doi:10.1051/parasite/2013015. PMC 3718518. PMID 23647664.
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