thorny sculpin
Icelus spiniger Gilbert, 1896
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.
Open encyclopedia reference
Icelus spiniger, the thorny sculpin, is a marine fish in the family Cottidae. It can be found throughout the North Pacific, the eastern Sea of Okhotsk to Cape Navarin in the Bering Sea to Agattu Island in the Aleutian island chain and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Wikipedia contributors, Icelus spiniger; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T04:20:28.212902+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Icelus spiniger Gilbert, 1896
- Name authority
- Gilbert, 1896
- Common name
- thorny sculpin
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Cottidae
- Genus
- Icelus
- 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
- genusIcelus Krøyer, 1845
- speciesIcelus spiniger Gilbert, 1896
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Icelus. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| two-horn sculpinIcelus bicornis (Reinhardt, 1840) | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| blacknose sculpinIcelus canaliculatus Gilbert, 1896 | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Icelus ecornis Tsutsui & Yabe, 1996 | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| wide-eye sculpinIcelus euryops Bean, 1890 | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Scaly-belly sculpinIcelus perminovi Taranetz, 1936 | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Icelus sekii Tsuruoka, Munehara & Yabe, 2006 | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| spatulate sculpinIcelus spatula Gilbert & Burke, 1912 | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Icelus toyamensis (Matsubara & Iwai, 1951) | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Icelus mororanis (Jordan & Seale, 1906) | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Armed sculpinIcelus armatus (Schmidt, 1916) | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Thory sculpinIcelus cataphractus (Pavlenko, 1910) | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Gilbert’s scaly sculpinIcelus gilberti Taranetz, 1936 | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Names & synonyms
Names explicitly linked to this accepted taxon in the source. Synonymy can change with revision.
| Recorded name | Source status |
|---|---|
| Icelus spiniger spiniger Gilbert, 1896 Gilbert, 1896 | synonym |
| Icelinus spiniger spiniger (Gilbert, 1896) (Gilbert, 1896) | synonym |
| Icelinus spiniger (Gilbert, 1896) (Gilbert, 1896) | synonym |
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.
- Gilbert, C. H. (1896). The ichthyological collections of the steamer Albatross during the years 1890 and 1891. United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries, Report of the Commissioner, v. 19 (for 1893) (art. 6): 393–476, Pls. 20–35. 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:6N4BS. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.