''Cottunculus nudus'', the bonyskull toadfish, is a species of fish in the family
Psychrolutidae
The fish family Psychrolutidae (commonly known as blobfishes, toadfishes, flathead sculpins, tadpole sculpins,) contains over 35 recognized species in 8 genera. This family consists of bottom-dwelling marine sculpins shaped like tadpoles, with l ...
(blobfishes) found in the Southwest
Pacific Ocean
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 definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...
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References
Psychrolutidae
Fish described in 1989
Taxa named by Joseph S. Nelson
Fish of the North Atlantic
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