''Psychrolutes'' is a genus of marine
ray-finned fish
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es belonging to the
family
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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 ...
, the fatheads and toadfishes. Though found predominantly in the deep sea, a handful of species are present in the intertidal regions of the North Pacific rim. In June 2003, During the
NORFANZ Expedition north-west of
New Zealand
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, scientists trawled a specimen of ''P. microporos'' at a depth between and on the
Norfolk Ridge
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It is part of a complex region of ridges between ...
.
Species
There are currently 11 recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Psychrolutes inermis''
( Vaillant, 1888)
* ''
Psychrolutes macrocephalus''
( Gilchrist, 1904)
* ''
Psychrolutes marcidus''
( McCulloch, 1926) (blobfish)
* ''
Psychrolutes marmoratus''
( T. N. Gill, 1889)
* ''
Psychrolutes microporos''
J. S. Nelson, 1995 (blobfish)
* ''
Psychrolutes occidentalis''
R. Fricke, 1990 (Western Australian sculpin)
* ''
Psychrolutes paradoxus''
Günther, 1861 (Tadpole sculpin)
* ''
Psychrolutes phrictus''
Stein
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& C. E. Bond, 1978 (blob sculpin)
* ''
Psychrolutes sigalutes''
( D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1895) (soft sculpin)
* ''
Psychrolutes sio''
J. S. Nelson, 1980
* ''
Psychrolutes subspinosus''
( A. S. Jensen, 1902)
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Catalog of Fishes
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'' classifies ''
Gilbertidia'' as a
synonym
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of ''Pyschrolutes'',
but ''
FishBase
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References
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Psychrolutidae
Taxa named by Albert Günther
Marine fish genera