Porocottus

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.

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

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)