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Cottidae (Sculpins)
Etymology: Artediellus: Petrus (Peter) Artedi, (10 Mar.) 1705-35 (28 Sep.), a son of a clergyman from Anundsjö named Olaus Arctaedius, in the northern part of Sweden.In 1729 he changed his name from Arctaedius to Arctædi, a name still later simplified to Artedi (Ref. 45335).
Eponymy: Peter Artedi (1705–1735) was a Swedish ichthyologist, sometimes regarded as ‘the father of ichthyology”. [...] (Ref. 128868), visit book page.
More on authors: Jordan & Evermann.
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Marine; demersal; depth range 35 - 900 m (Ref. 35388). Temperate; -2°C - 4°C (Ref. 35388); 80°N - 41°N, 71°W - 41°E
Northwest Atlantic: Greenland and Canada to Cape Cod in Massachusetts, USA. Northeast Atlantic: Greenland, Iceland, the Faroes, Novaya Zemlya (but not White Sea) in Russia, southern part of Barents Sea, Scandinavian coast to Skagerrak, the Orkneys in Scotland, and Ireland.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 15.0 cm SL male/unsexed; (Ref. 35388); 10.6 cm SL (female); common length : 10.5 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 4698)
Gill membranes joined to each other under the throat, lateral line scales without bony knobs. Upper spine of the front gill cover curved upwards (Ref. 35388).
Body shape (shape guide): elongated.
Occur on sandy or muddy bottoms (Ref. 4698). Benthic (Ref. 58426). Feed on polychaetes, small mollusks and very rarely small crustaceans (Ref. 4698). Lives at temperatures of -1.7-4°C. Females lay 50-350 eggs with a diameter of 4mm in late summer (Ref. 35388).
Fedorov, V.V., 1986. Cottidae. p. 1243-1260. In P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 3. (Ref. 4698)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-2)
Threat to humans
Harmless
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Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature (Ref.
123201): 0.4 - 7.4, mean 3 °C (based on 1117 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00589 (0.00281 - 0.01234), b=3.15 (2.97 - 3.33), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this (Sub)family-body shape (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 3.6 ±0.38 se; based on food items.
Resilience (Ref.
120179): Low, minimum population doubling time 4.5 - 14 years (Fec=50).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
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Nutrients (Ref.
124155): Calcium = 82.3 [31.6, 185.9] mg/100g; Iron = 0.378 [0.173, 0.871] mg/100g; Protein = 17.1 [14.9, 19.3] %; Omega3 = 0.65 [0.28, 1.57] g/100g; Selenium = 11 [3, 36] μg/100g; VitaminA = 31.4 [8.1, 110.6] μg/100g; Zinc = 0.765 [0.486, 1.338] mg/100g (wet weight);
