Cottoidei

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Cottoidei
Temporal range: Early Eocene–present
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European bullhead (Cottus gobio)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Perciformes
Suborder: Cottoidei
Agassiz, 1835 [1]
Type species
Cottus gobio
Linnaeus, 1758
Families

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Cottoidei is a suborder of ray-finned fishes in the order Perciformes. It contains sculpins, snailfish, blobfish, greenlings, and sablefish. [2] They are primarily found in temperate, polar, and deep waters, especially in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Taxonomy

Cottoidei was first proposed as a taxonomic grouping in 1835 by the Swiss-American zoologist Louis Agassiz. [1] The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies the Cottoidei as a suborder of the order Scorpaeniformes. [3] Other workers have found that if the Scorpaeniformes, as delimited in Fishes of the World, is not included in the Perciformes it renders the Perciformes paraphyletic. These workers retain the Cottoidei as a suborder within the Perciformes but include the zoarcoids and Sticklebacks and allies as the infraorders Zoarcales and Gasterosteales while reclassifying most superfamilies of Fishes of the World as infraorders. [4] Presently, Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes keeps it as a suborder of Perciformes. [2]

Fossil otoliths of cottoids date to the Early Eocene, while skeletal remains only appear from the Early Oligocene onwards. [5]

Subdivisions

The Cottoidei is divided into the following superfamilies, families and subfamilies: [3] [6] [2]

References

  1. 1 2 "†suborder Cottoidei Agassiz 1835". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 Fricke, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Van der Laan, R. (2025). "ESCHMEYER'S CATALOG OF FISHES: CLASSIFICATION". California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 2025-02-10.
  3. 1 2 J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 467–495. ISBN   978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2022-11-30.
  4. ↑ Ricardo Betancur-R; Edward O. Wiley; Gloria Arratia; et al. (2017). "Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 17 (162): 162. doi: 10.1186/s12862-017-0958-3 . PMC   5501477 . PMID   28683774.
  5. ↑ Nazarkin, M. V. (2017-01-01). "A new horned sculpin (Pisces: Cottidae) from the Miocene of Sakhalin Island, Russia" . Paleontological Journal. 51 (1): 77–86. doi:10.1134/S0031030117010099. ISSN   1555-6174.
  6. ↑ Richard van der Laan; William N. Eschmeyer & Ronald Fricke (2014). "Family-group names of Recent fishes". Zootaxa. 3882 (2): 001–230. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 . PMID   25543675.
  7. ↑ Catherine W. Mecklenburg (2003). "Family Anoplopomatidae Jordan & Gilbert 1883 sablefishes" (PDF). California Academy of Sciences Annotated Checklists of Fishes. 2.
  8. 1 2 Catherine W. Mecklenburg & William N. Eschmeyer (2003). "Family Hexagrammidae Gill 1889 Greenlings" (PDF). California Academy of Sciences Annotated Checklists of Fishes. 2.
  9. ↑ Catherine W. Mecklenburg (2003). "Family Trichodontidae Bleeker 1859 — sand fishes" (PDF). California Academy of Sciences Annotated Checklists of Fishes. 15.
  10. ↑ Mamoru Yabe (1985). "Comaprative Osteology and Myology of the Superfamily Cottoidea Pisces:Scorpaeniformes), and its Phylogenetic Classification". Memoirs off the Faculty of Fishes Hokkaido University. 32 (1): 1–130. S2CID   81835479.
  11. ↑ Catherine W. Mecklenburg & Boris A. Sheiko (2003). "Family Cyclopteridae Bonaparte 1831 - lumpsuckers" (PDF). 6.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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