Family RHAMPHOCOTTIDAE

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• RHAMPHOCOTTIDAE.

  Secondary source:

   Jordan, D.S. & Gilbert, C.H. 1883. A synopsis of the fishes of North America. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 16: 1-1018 [Date published 30/Apr/1883: dated 1882] [684] (as subfamily of Cottidae).
• EREUNIIDAE Jordan, D.S. & Snyder, J.O. 1901. Description of two new genera of fishes (Ereunias and Draciscus) from Japan. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 3 2(7-8): 377-380 [377] (provisional placement as subfamily of Cottidae).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Smith, W.L. & Busby, M.S. 2014. Phylogeny and taxonomy of sculpins, sandfishes, and snailfishes (Perciformes: Cottoidei) with comments on the phylogenetic significance of their early-life-history specializations. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 79: 332-352 [349]

Introduction

This cottoid family contains 4 species in three genera, most confined to the continental slopes in the North Pacific, ranging from Japan to Alaska and south to California. Only one species is known form Australia. Nelson (2006) treated the Ereunidae as a separate family. Smith & Busby (2014) combined the family with the Rhamphocottidae. That classification was followed by Nelson et al. (2016). Tentatively with follow that classification. However, further studies are needed, as Voskoboinikova (2015) considered the two groups to be distinct and not closely related based on morphological analyses.

General References

Nelson, J.S. 2006. Fishes of the World. Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 601 pp.

Nelson, J.S., Grande, T.C. & Wilson, M.V.H. 2016. Fishes of the World. Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons 5, 752 pp.

Smith, W.L. & Busby, M.S. 2014. Phylogeny and taxonomy of sculpins, sandfishes, and snailfishes (Perciformes: Cottoidei) with comments on the phylogenetic significance of their early-life-history specializations. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 79: 332-352

Voskoboinikova, O.S. 2015. Comparative osteology of Bathylutichthys balushkini and relationships of the family Bathylutichthyidae (Cottoidei). Journal of Ichthyology 55(3): 303–310 [original publication in Voprosy Ikhtiologii Vol. 55, No. 3, pp. 251–259.]

Common Name References

Nelson, J.S., Grande, T.C. & Wilson, M.V.H. 2016. Fishes of the World. Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons 5, 752 pp. (Grunt Sculpins)

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