Bighead sculpin
| Batrachocottus baicalensis | |
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| Species: | B. baicalensis
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| Batrachocottus baicalensis Dybowski, 1874
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Cottus baicalensis Dybowski, 1874 | |
Batrachocottus baicalensis, or the bighead sculpin, is one of the cottoid fishes or sculpins endemic to the Lake Baikal watershed in eastern Siberia, Russia.[1] It lives at approximately one hundred meters depth, over stony bottoms. It can attain a length of 19 cm.[1]
It is variously considered to belong either to the family Cottocomephoridae,[1] Cottidae[2] or Abyssocottidae.[3]
References
- ^ a b c Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2015). "Batrachocottus baicalensis". FishBase.
- ^ William Eschmeyer (2015) baicalensis, Cottus Archived 2015-02-14 at the Wayback Machine. Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences.
- ^ Tytti Kontula, Sergei V. Kirilchik, Risto Väinölä (2003) Endemic diversification of the monophyletic cottoid fish species flock in Lake Baikal explored with mtDNA sequencing Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 27, 1, 143–155.