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Cottoidea 
Taxonomic Serial No.: 643429

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Superfamily  
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  Current Standing: valid  
       
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  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2005   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomDeuterostomia   
          PhylumChordata  – cordés, cordado, chordates  
             SubphylumVertebrata  – vertebrado, vertébrés, vertebrates  
                InfraphylumGnathostomata   
                   SuperclassActinopterygii  – ray-finned fishes, spiny rayed fishes, poisson épineux, poissons à nageoires rayonnées  
                      ClassTeleostei   
                         SuperorderAcanthopterygii   
                            OrderScorpaeniformes  – chabots, rascasses, mail-cheeked fishes, scorpion fishes, sculpins  
                               SuborderCottoidei  – sculpins, chabots  
                                  SuperfamilyCottoidea   
    Direct Children:  
                                     FamilyAbyssocottidae   
                                     FamilyAgonidae  – alligatorfishes, poachers, sea poachers, bandidos, poissons-alligators 
                                     FamilyBathylutichthyidae   
                                     FamilyComephoridae  – oilfishes, Baikal oilfishes 
                                     FamilyCottidae  – sculpins, bullheads, scaleless sculpins, chabots de mer, scorpions de mer, chabots, charrascos espinosos 
                                     FamilyEreuniidae   
                                     FamilyHemitripteridae  – charrascos cuervo, hémitriptères, searavens 
                                     FamilyPsychrolutidae  – flathead sculpins, cabezas gordas, chabots veloutés, fathead sculpins 
                                     FamilyRhamphocottidae  – grunt sculpins, chabots grogneurs, charrascos gruñones 
       

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  Author(s)/Editor(s): Nelson, Joseph S.   
  Publication Date: 1994   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Fishes of the World, Third Edition   
  Page(s): xvii + 600   
  Publisher: John Wiley and Sons   
  Publication Place: New York, New York, USA   
  ISBN/ISSN: 0-471-54713-1   
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  Reference for: Cottoidea   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Yabe, Mamoru   
  Publication Date: 1985   
  Article/Chapter Title: Comparative osteology and myology of the superfamily Cottoidea (Pisces: Scorpaeniformes), and its phylogenetic classification   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Memoirs of the Faculty of Fisheries, Hokkaido University, vol. 32, no. 1   
  Page(s): 1-130   
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