Triglops

Triglops is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins.

Triglops was first proposed as a monospecific subgenus of Cottus in 1830 by the Danish zoologist Johan Reinhardt when he described Triglops pingelii,[1] giving its type locality as Quanneoen, south of Frederikshaab in western Greenland.

[1] Triglops currently contains 10 recognized species in this genus:[4] Triglops sculpins have slender, elongate, cylindrical to compressed or flattened bodies with a small head, which may also be slightly depressed or compressed, with a small horizontal or slightly oblique mouth.

The lateral line is made up of large scales which resemble plates and the scales underneath these form obvious rows of very small serrated plates, these are within close-set diagonal skin folds, a feature shared solely with Jordania.

[5] Triglops sculpins are predators of invertebrates such as polychaetes, crustaceans and sometimes smaller fishes.