Steller's sculpin

Steller's sculpin (Myoxocephalus stelleri), also known as frog sculpin, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins.^[3] This species is found in the northern Pacific, from the Aleutian Islands to the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan.^[2] Described by Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau in 1811, it is the type species of the genus Myoxocephalus.^[4]

Steller's sculpin
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Suborder:	Cottoidei
Family:	Psychrolutidae
Genus:	Myoxocephalus
Species:	M. stelleri
Binomial name
Myoxocephalus stelleri Tilesius, 1811[1]
Synonyms[2]
Cottus marmoratus Valenciennes, 1832 Cottus decastrensis Kner, 1865 Myoxocephalus raninus Jordan & Starks, 1904 Myoxocephalus incitus Watanabe, 1958

Etymology

The fish is named in honor of Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709-1746), a German physician-naturalist who worked in Russia and explored the Kamchatka Peninsula; using his unpublished manuscript provided material for the description.^[5]