Porocottus

Porocottus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Suborder:	Cottoidei
Family:	Psychrolutidae
Genus:	Porocottus Gill, 1859
Type species
Porocottus quadrifilis Gill, 1859 [1]
Synonyms [1]
Crossias D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1904

Porocottus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. These fishes are found in the northern and northwestern Pacific Ocean.

Taxonomy

Porocottus was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1859 by the American biologist Theodore Gill ^[1] when he described Porocottus quadrifilis from the Bering Strait. ^[2] The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classifies the genus Artediellus within the subfamily Cottinae of the family Cottidae, ^[3] however, other authors classify the genus within the subfamily Myoxocephalinae of the family Psychrolutidae. ^[1]

Species

There are currently nine recognized species in this genus: ^[4]

• Porocottus allisi (D. S. Jordan & Starks, 1904) ^[5]

• Porocottus camtschaticus (Schmidt, 1916)
• Porocottus coronatus Yabe, 1992
• Porocottus japonicus Schmidt, 1935
• Porocottus leptosomus Muto, Y. Choi & Yabe, 2002
• Porocottus mednius (T. H. Bean, 1898) (Pored sculpin)
• Porocottus minutus (Pallas, 1814)
• Porocottus quadrifilis Gill, 1859
• Porocottus tentaculatus (Kner, 1868)

References

1. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Myoxocephalinae". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 15 February 2023.
2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Porocottus". Catalog of Fishes . California Academy of Sciences . Retrieved 17 February 2023.
3. 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.
4. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Species in genus Porocottus". FishBase . August 2022 version.
5. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara (22 September 2018). "Order PERCIFORMES: Suborder COTTOIDEI: Infraorder COTTALES: Family COTTIDAE (Sculpins)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 26 May 2025.