Melletes
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| Genus: | Melletes Bean, 1880
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Melletes, the butterfly sculpins, is a genus of sculpins native mostly to the northern Pacific Ocean, Sea of Okhotsk, Bering Sea, and the Arctic Ocean.
Species[]
There is currently only one recognized species in this genus:[1]
- Melletes papilio T. H. Bean, 1880 (butterfly sculpin)
References[]
- ^ Tokranov, AM; Orlov, AM; Sheiko, BA (2003). "Brief review of the genera Hemilepidotus and Melletes (Cottidae) and some traits of the biology of a new species for Russia Hemilepidotus zapus from Pacific waters of the northern Kurils". Journal of Ichthyology. 43 (3): 333–49.
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