A sculpin is a type of fish that belongs to the superfamily Cottoidea in the order Perciformes. As of 2025, this superfamily contains 5 families, 112 genera, and 405 species.
Sculpins occur in many types of habitat, including ocean and freshwater zones. They live in rivers, submarine canyons, kelp forests, and shallow littoral habitat types, such as tidepools.
- Family Rhamphocottidae <small>Jordan & Gilbert, 1883</small> (horsehead sculpins)
- Family Cottidae <small>Bonaparte, 1831</small> (sculpins)
- Family Psychrolutidae <small>Günther, 1861</small> (marine sculpins)
- Family Jordaniidae <small>Jordan & Evermann, 1898</small> (longfin sculpins)
- Family Nautichthyidae <small>Taranetz, 1941</small> (sailfin sculpins)
- Family Hemilepidotidae <small>Jordan & Evermann, 1898</small> (Irish lords)
- Family Hemitripteridae <small>Gill, 1865</small> (sea ravens)
- Family Agonidae <small>Swainson, 1839</small> (Poachers and sea ravens)
- Subfamily Hypsagoninae <small>Gill, 1861</small> (dragon poachers)
- Subfamily Agoninae <small>Swainson, 1839</small> (hooknose poachers)
- Subfamily Anoplagoninae <small>Gill, 1861</small> (alligator fishes)
- Subfamily Podothecinae <small>Gill, 1861</small> (sturgeon poachers)
- Subfamily Brachyopsinae <small>Jordan & Evermann, 1898</small> (uppermouth poachers)
- Subfamily Agonopsinae <small>Vandenberg et al. 2026</small> (spearnose poachers)
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Blue Ridge sculpin - Cottus caeruleomentum.jpg|Cottus caeruleomentum
ObiAHset.jpg|Pseudoblennius zonostigma
Sailfin sculpin (Nautichthys oculofasciatus).jpg|Nautichthys oculofasciatus
Ambophthalmos angustus.jpg|Ambophthalmos angustus
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