Sakhalin sculpin

The Sakhalin sculpin (Cottus amblystomopsis) is a species of amphidromous ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. It is found in eastern Russia to northern Japan. It reaches a maximum length of 20.8 cm.[2] The Sakhalin sculpin was first formally described in 1904 by the Russian zoologist Peter Yulievich Schmidt with its type locality given as the Lyutoga River on Sakhalin.[3] This species is sometimes placed in the subgenus Cephalocottus. The specific name is a misspelling of Ambystoma, the axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanus) combined with opsis, meanning "having the look of", and Schmidt described it as having a head that is “strongly dorsoventrally depressed, wide, nearly flat dorsally, abruptly sloping laterally, similar to the head of an axolotl” (translation).[4]

Sakhalin sculpin
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Cottidae
Genus: Cottus
Species:
C. amblystomopsis
Binomial name
Cottus amblystomopsis
Schmidt, 1904

References
  1. Bogutskaya, N. (2021). "Cottus amblystomopsis". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T159629490A159629519. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T159629490A159629519.en. Retrieved 17 January 2023.
  2. Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2022). "Cottus amblystomopsis" in FishBase. August 2022 version.
  3. Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Cottus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
  4. Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (22 October 2022). "Order Perciformes: Suborder Cottoidea: Infraorder Cottales: Family Cottidae (Sculpins)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
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