Shoshone sculpin
The Shoshone sculpin (Cottus greenei) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. It is It is endemic to the United States. It inhabits spring systems in the Thousand Springs formation near Hagerman, south-central Idaho. It reaches a maximum length of 9.0 cm.[2] The specific name honors Charles Wilson Greene who was an instructor in physiology at Stanford University and was on the expedition on which the type was collected[3] from the Thousand Springs on the Snake River, near mouth of Salmon Falls River in Gooding County, Idaho.[4]
| Shoshone sculpin | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Family: | Cottidae |
| Genus: | Cottus |
| Species: | C. greenei |
| Binomial name | |
| Cottus greenei (C. H. Gilbert & Culver, 1898) | |
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References
- NatureServe (2014). "Cottus greenei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2014: e.T5440A15363453. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2014-3.RLTS.T5440A15363453.en. Retrieved 11 November 2021.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2014). "Cottus greenei" in FishBase. February 2014 version.
- 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 18 January 2023.
- Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Cottus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
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