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Species Summary for Malacocottus zonurus - Darkfin sculpin - English
URL: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?genusname=Malacocottus&specie

North Pacific: northern Japan, Okhotsk Sea and Cape Navarin in the western Bering Sea to Agattu I. in the Aleutian chain and Washington, USA.

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Ambophthalmos, a new genus for "Neophrynichthys" angustus and "Neophrynichthys" magnicirrus - English
URL: http://www.nrc.ca/cisti/journals/cjz/z98-053.html

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The new genus Ambophthalmos is recognised for "Neophrynichthys" angustus and "Neophrynichthys" magnicirrus, two southern Pacific psychrolutids. A hypothesis of psychrolutid phylogenetic relationships based on parsimony analysis of osteological characters is presented. Two synapomorphic characters suggest that A. angustus and A. magnicirrus form a monophyletic group: the supratemporal is posteriorly fused to the posttemporal and arch 2 is medially fused to its antimere.

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Psychrolutidae - English
URL: http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/users/haaramo/Metazoa/Deuterostoma/Chordata/Actinopt

Phylogenetic tree.

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Soft sculpins (Psychrolutidae) - English
URL: http://www.arctic.uoguelph.ca/cpl/organisms/fish/marine/soft_scul/soft_intro.htm

These bottom-dwelling fishes are closely allied to a dominant group of fishes in the Arctic, the sculpins. Soft sculpins are distinguished from their relatives by dorsal fins that are continuous and spiny, rather than those of sculpins which are separated into a spiny and a soft-rayed section. They have pelvic fins with one spine and three soft rays, and fewer bones around the eye than sculpins do.

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Family Psychrolutidae - English
URL: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/FamilySummary.cfm?ID=282

Distribution: Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific. Naked or body with plates bearing prickles. Interorbital space usually wider than exposed eye diameter. Reduced lateral line with 20 or fewer pores. Pelvic fin 1 spine, 3 soft rays. Dorsal fins usually continuous, with the anterior portion spinous and often partially hidden by skin.

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Psychrolutidae - English
URL: http://cichlidresearch.com/fish_html/fpsychro.html

The Family Psychrolutidae contains these Genera: Cottunculus, Dasycottus, Ebinania, Eurymen, Malacocottus, Neophrynichthys, Psychrolutes = Cottunculoides = Gilbertidia.

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InterNevod: Психролютовые (Psychrolutidae) - Russian
URL: http://www.internevod.com/rus/academy/bio/k_fish/psychrol.shtml

У менее специализированных родов (Dasycottus, Malacocottus, Cottunculus) имеются шипы на предкрышке, пропадающие у родов, уклоняющихся от исходного типа (Ebinanania, Besnardia, Neophrynichthys); первый спинной плавник хорошо развит и отделен от второго, но у сильно специализированных родов один сплошной плавник (Eurymen) или первый спинной плавник у взрослых зарастает мягкими тканями спины и не виден (Ebinania). У всех видов этого семейства очень слабо развиты брюшные плавники.

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