''Cottunculus'' is a

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of marine

ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of sk ...

belonging to the family

Psychrolutidae The fish family Psychrolutidae (commonly known as blobfishes, flathead sculpins, or tadpole sculpins) contains over 35 recognized species in 8 genera. This family consists of bottom-dwelling marine sculpins shaped like tadpoles, with large heads ...

. These fishes are found in the

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Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean, or, depending on the definition, to Antarctica in the south, and is bounded by the cont ...

and

Arctic The Arctic (; . ) is the polar regions of Earth, polar region of Earth that surrounds the North Pole, lying within the Arctic Circle. The Arctic region, from the IERS Reference Meridian travelling east, consists of parts of northern Norway ( ...

oceans.

Species

There are currently 6 recognized species in this genus: * '' Cottunculus granulosus''

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, 1968 (Fathead) * ''

Cottunculus microps ''Cottunculus microps'', the polar sculpin, is a species of fathead sculpin, a deepwater fish found in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. It was first described in 1875 by the Norwegian zoologist Robert Collett, curator of the Natural Histor ...

'' Collett, 1875 (Polar sculpin)Byrkjedal, I., Hadler-Jacobsen, S., Rees, D. & Orlov, A. (2014):Molecular and morphological variation in saddled fathead sculpins (Psychrolutidae: ''Cottunculus'') of the north-east Atlantic Ocean, with a synonymy of three species. ''Journal of Fish Biology, 85 (3): 821–837.'' * ''

Cottunculus nudus ''Cottunculus nudus'', the bonyskull toadfish, is a species of fish in the blobfish family Psychrolutidae The fish family Psychrolutidae (commonly known as blobfishes, flathead sculpins, or tadpole sculpins) contains over 35 recognized specie ...

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, 1989 (Bonyskull toadfish) * '' Cottunculus sadko'' Essipov, 1937 * ''

Cottunculus spinosus ''Cottunculus spinosus'' is a species of fish in the blobfish family Psychrolutidae. It is found in the south-eastern Atlantic Ocean off South Africa at depths of . Description This species reaches a length of . References

Cottunculus ...

'' Gilchrist, 1906 * ''

Cottunculus thomsonii The pallid sculpin (''Cottunculus thomsonii'') is a species of fish in the family Psychrolutidae (blobfishes). Etymology The specific name refers to Charles Wyville Thomson. Description The pallid sculpin is up to in length and up to in weig ...

'' ( Günther, 1882) (Pallid sculpin) * ''

Cottunculus tubulosus ''Cottunculus tubulosus'' is a species of fish in the blobfishe family Psychrolutidae. It is found in the north-eastern Atlantic Ocean. It was described in 2007 by Ingvar Byrkjedal Ingvar or Yngvar ( , d. early 7th century) was the son of Ö ...

'' Byrkjedal &

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, 2007

References

Psychrolutidae Taxa named by Robert Collett Marine fish genera {{Cottoidei-stub