Japanese fringed sculpin
Porocottus japonicus Schmidt, 1935
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Porocottus japonicus Schmidt, 1935
- Name authority
- Schmidt, 1935
- Common name
- Japanese fringed sculpin
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Cottidae
- Genus
- Porocottus
- Extinction status
- Not supplied by this source
Source habitat flags: Marine: yes · Freshwater: no · Terrestrial: no. These do not form a complete habitat description.
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- gigaclassActinopterygii
- superclassActinopteri
- classTeleostei
- orderPerciformes
- suborderCottoidei
- familyCottidae Bonaparte, 1831
- genusPorocottus Gill, 1859
- speciesPorocottus japonicus Schmidt, 1935
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Porocottus. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Porocottus allisi (Jordan & Starks, 1904) | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Porocottus coronatus Yabe, 1992 | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Aleutian fringed sculpinPorocottus mednius (Bean, 1898) | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Okhotsk fringed sculpinPorocottus minutus (Pallas, 1814) | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Chukchi fringed sculpinPorocottus quadrifilis Gill, 1859 | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Porocottus tentaculatus (Kner, 1868) | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Porocottus leptosomus Muto, Choi & Yabe, 2002 | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- Taranetz, A. Ya. (1935). A short review of the species of the genus Porocottus with a note on Myoxocephalus sellaris. Vestnik Dal’nevostocnogo Filiala Akademii Nauk SSSR = Bulletin of the Far Eastern Branch of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, No. 14: 177–180. Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:4LY2G. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.