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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Cottidae

Sculpins

WoRMS 125589ITIS 167196GBIF 8621key worms:125589
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2026-08-05: itis_id 167196 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Matt Dunkle · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Cottus aleuticus

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Cottidae
Photo · Vince Golder · CC BY-NC 4.0 · inat NC

The Cottidae are a family of fish in the superfamily Cottoidea, the sculpins. Following major taxonomic revisions, it contains about 118 species in 18 genera, the vast majority of which are either restricted to freshwater habitats or are amphidromous.W CalCOFI holds 1,379 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1951 and 2023, as larva, across 22 taxa under it.R

1,379
observations
1,379
records
452
sampling events
1951–2023
years
1
datasets
16
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 452 obs · 452 events · 1951–2023 · larva
    name used: Cottidae Sculpins · code 735

Under it · 12 taxa

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125589%22