Artediellus atlanticus

Artediellus atlanticus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Perciformes
Family:	Cottidae
Genus:	Artediellus
Species:	A. atlanticus
Binomial name
Artediellus atlanticus Jordan & Evermann, 1898
Synonyms[1]
Artediellus atlanticus atlanticus Jordan & Evermann, 1898 Artediellus europaeus Knipowitsch, 1907 Artediellus atlanticus europaeus Knipowitsch, 1907

Artediellus atlanticus, the Atlantic hookear sculpin or hookhorn sculpin, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cottidae. This species is found along the coasts of Northern Atlantic Ocean.

Taxonomy

Artediellus atlanticus was first formally described in 1898 by the American ichthyologists David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann with its type locality given as Massachusetts Bay.[2] This species is classified in the genus Artediellus[1] which is classified in the subfamily Cottinae of the family Cottidae in the 5th edition of Fishes of the World.[3] This species is classified by some authorities in the subgenus Artediellus.[4]

Description

Artediellus atlanticus has an elongated body which is thicker at the front and tapers to the tail with a moderately large mouth.[5] The gill membranes are joined at the isthmus, there are no bony protuberances on the scales of the lateral line and the spine on the operculum is hooked upwards.[1] The dorsal fina are supported by a total of 7 spines and 13 soft rays while the anal fin is supported by 11 soft rays.[5] The maximum published standard length is 15 cm (5.9 in), although 10.5 cm (4.1 in) is more typical.[1]

Distribution and habitat

Artediellus atlanticus in the North Atlantic Ocean where it occurs from Greenland to Cape Cod in the northwestern Atlantic and from the Barents Sea and Greenland south through Iceland, Scandinavia, the Faroes south to northern Scotland and Ireland. It is a demersal fish found on sandy or muddy substrates at depths between 35 and 900 m (115 and 2,953 ft).[1]

Biology

Artediellus atlanticus feeds on benthic inverterates such as polychaetes and small molluscs, they very infrequently prey on small crustaceans. It occurs at temperatures between −1.7 and 4 °C (28.9 and 39.2 °F). The females lay between 50 and 350 eggs in the late summer.[1] The eggs take over 200 days to hatch and the larvae hatched from the eggs are well developed, very similar to adults.[6]

References

1. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Artediellus atlanticus". FishBase. August 2022 version.
2. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Artediedellus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 5 January 2023.
3. J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 467–495. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2023-01-05.
4. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (22 October 2022). "Order Perciformes: Suborder Cottoidea: Infraorder Cottales: Family Cottidae (Sculpins)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
5. David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann (1898). "The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama. Part II". Bulletin of the United States National Museum. 47: 1906.
6. C. F. von Dorrien (1996). "Reproduction and larval ecology of the Arctic fish species Artediellus atlanticus (Cottidae)". Polar Biology. 16: 401–407. doi:10.1007/BF02390422.