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Species of fish
| Bald sculpin | |
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| Breakwater Cove Marina, Monterey, California | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Cottidae |
| Genus: | Clinocottus |
| Species: | C. recalvus |
| Binomial name | |
| Clinocottus recalvus (Greeley, 1899) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Blennicottus recalvus Greeley, 1899 | |
The bald sculpin (Clinocottus recalvus) is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. It is found in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
Taxonomy
The bald sculpin was first formally described as Blennicottus recalvus in 1899 by the American ichthyologist Arthur White Greeley with its type locality given as Pacific Grove, California. The bald sculpin is classified within the subgenus Blennicottus which was proposed by Theodore Gill in 1861 and is the clade of round headed species within the genus Clinocottus, these species seemingly not being the closest relatives of the two sharp snouted species. The specific name, recalvus, means “bald in front”, an allusion to the absence of cirri between the eyes and their sparseness on the crown.
Description
The bald sculpin has a large, depressed, flattened, and broad head with an elongated, tapering body. The head and body have light to dark brown speckles with paler reddish and white mottles. The large eyes are positioned on the top pf the head and the large wide mouth is equipped with many small teeth. The dorsal fins are supported by 8 or 9 spines and between 14 and 17 soft rays while the anal fin has between 10 and 13 soft rays. The pelvic fins each have a single spine and 3 rays. The maximum published total length for this species is 13 cm (5.1 in).
Distribution and habitat
The bald sculpin is found in the eastern Pacific Ocean along the eastern coast of North America from Brookings, Oregon south to Punta Rompiente in Baja California Sur. This is a common species of tidal pools and shallow rocky areas.
References
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Clinocottus recalvus". FishBase. August 2022 version.
- Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Clinocottus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
- Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Oligocottinae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
- Matthew L. Knope (2013). "Phylogenetics of the marine sculpins (Teleostei: Cottidae) of the North American Pacific Coast". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 66: 341–349. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2012.10.008.
- 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 30 January 2023.
- ^ "Bald Sculpin". Mexican Fish. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
| Taxon identifiers | |
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| Clinocottus recalvus | |
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