WoRMS taxon details
Icelus bicornis (Reinhardt, 1840)
127199 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:127199)
accepted
Species
Cottus bicornis Reinhardt, 1840 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Cottus bicornis Reinhardt, 1840) Reinhardt, J. C. H. (1840). Om nye Grönlandske fiske. <em>Oversigt over det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Forhandlinger og dets Medlemmers Arbeider (Kjøbenhavn).</em> v. 7 (1839): 8-10. [details]
Distribution Greenland to Baffin Island, Ungava Bay, eastern Hudson Bay at Hamilton Inlet, Labrador, off northeastern Newfoundland, off...
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]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Icelus bicornis (Reinhardt, 1840). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=127199 on 2025-04-03
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Cottus bicornis Reinhardt, 1840) Reinhardt, J. C. H. (1840). Om nye Grönlandske fiske. <em>Oversigt over det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Forhandlinger og dets Medlemmers Arbeider (Kjøbenhavn).</em> v. 7 (1839): 8-10. [details]
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, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]
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, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 357-374 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas. 2002. November, 2002. [details]
additional source Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp. [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
additional source Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas. 2002. November, 2002. [details]
additional source Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp. [details]
additional source Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
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 benthic [details]
Habitat Found on muddy, sandy or rocky bottoms or among algae. [details]
Reproduction Female lays 150-1,000 eggs with a diameter of 3mm [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | two-horn sculpintwohorn sculpin | [details] |
| French | icèle à deux cornes | [details] |
| Norwegian Bokmål | tornulke | [details] |
| Norwegian Nynorsk | tornulke | [details] |
| Swedish | klykskrabb | [details] |
| Welsh | sgorpion môr deugorn | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (18 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (28 publications) (from synonym Cottus bicornis Reinhardt, 1840)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (47 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Icelus bicornis)
To FishBase (from synonym Cottus bicornis Reinhardt, 1840)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Icelus bicornis, Norway, by Svensen, E.)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Cottus bicornis Reinhardt, 1840)
To PESI
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (28 publications) (from synonym Cottus bicornis Reinhardt, 1840)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (47 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Icelus bicornis)
To FishBase (from synonym Cottus bicornis Reinhardt, 1840)
To FishBase
To FishBase images (Icelus bicornis, Norway, by Svensen, E.)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Cottus bicornis Reinhardt, 1840)
To PESI
To ITIS
