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Hemilepidotus papilio

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Melletes
M. papilio, the butterfly sculpin, is the type species
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Actinopterygii
Order:
Scorpaeniformes
Family:
Cottidae
Genus:
Melletes

Bean, 1880

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]

References

  1. ^ 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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