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Porocottus Gill, 1859

AphiaID

254382 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:254382)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Cottidae Bonaparte, 1831

Synonymised names

Crossias Jordan & Starks, 1904 · unaccepted

Crossius · unaccepted (misspelling)

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Species Porocottus allisi (Jordan & Starks, 1904)
Species Porocottus camtschaticus (Schmidt, 1916)
Species Porocottus coronatus Yabe, 1992
Species Porocottus japonicus Schmidt, 1935
Species Porocottus leptosomus Muto, Choi & Yabe, 2002
Species Porocottus mednius (Bean, 1898)
Species Porocottus minutus (Pallas, 1814)
Species Porocottus quadrifilis Gill, 1859
Species Porocottus tentaculatus (Kner, 1868)
Species Porocottus albomaculatus (Schmidt, 1916) accepted as Porocottus mednius (Bean, 1898)
Species Porocottus bradfordi Rutter, 1898 accepted as Porocottus mednius (Bean, 1898)
Species Porocottus quadratus Bean, 1898 accepted as Microcottus sellaris (Gilbert, 1896)
Species Porocottus sellaris (Gilbert, 1896) accepted as Microcottus sellaris (Gilbert, 1896)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Gill, T. N. (1859). Description of new generic types of cottoids, from the collection of the North Pacific exploring expedition under Com. John Rodgers. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. v. 11: 165-166. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Porocottus Gill, 1859. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=254382 on 2025-03-28

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2007-12-06 13:48:25Z

created

Huettmann, Falk

2013-03-11 14:35:28Z

checked

Bailly, Nicolas

2014-11-21 13:09:37Z

changed

Bailly, Nicolas

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Gill, T. N. (1859). Description of new generic types of cottoids, from the collection of the North Pacific exploring expedition under Com. John Rodgers. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. v. 11: 165-166. [details]

basis of record Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025., available online at http://researcharchive.calacademy.org/research/Ichthyology/catalog/fishcatmain.asp [details]