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Icelus bicornis (Reinhardt, 1840) 
AphiaID: 127199

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Scorpaeniformes (Order) > Cottidae (Family) > Icelus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Icelus
Synonymised
taxa
  Cottus bicornis Reinhardt, 1840
Sources  basis of record: van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas. 2002. November, 2002.  [details]

additional source: Scott, W.B. and M.G. Scott. 1988. Atlantic fishes of Canada. Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences No. 219. 731 p. [details]

additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details]

additional source: FishBase, version october 2012 [details]

additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

additional source: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English twohorn sculpin  [details]
English two-horn sculpin  [details]
French icèle à deux cornes  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål tornulke  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk tornulke  [details]
Swedish klykskrabb  [details]
Welsh sgorpion môr deugorn  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details]
Davis Strait [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
FAO fishing area 18 [details]
FAO fishing area 21 [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Hudson Bay [details]
Hudson Strait [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Ungava Bay [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (12 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (39 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To FishBase
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Diet: Feeds on benthic polychaetes, crustaceans (Hyppolyte, Boreophausia), and large hypereids (Phascolosoma) [details]

Distribution: Greenland to Baffin Island, Ungava Bay, eastern Hudson Bay at Hamilton Inlet, Labrador, off northeastern Newfoundland, off the southern Scotian Shelf, in the Bay of Fundy [details]

Habitat: Found on muddy, sandy or rocky bottoms or among algae. [details]

Habitat: benthic [details]

Reproduction: Female lays 150-1,000 eggs with a diameter of 3mm  [details]
Images 
Icelus bicornis - Twohorn sculpin
Icelus bicornis - Twohorn sculpin
added on 2010-02-22 - author: Nozères, Claude
qualitystatus: not checked

Icelus bicornis - Twohorn sculpin (spines)
Icelus bicornis - Twohorn sculpin (spines)
added on 2011-02-19 - author: Nozères, Claude
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127199
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2008-01-15 17:27:08Z  changed  Bailly, Nicolas
  
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  Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Icelus bicornis (Reinhardt, 1840). In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=127199 on 2013-05-22
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