Cottus nozawae
Cottus nozawae is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. It is found in southern Sakhalin Island in Russia, Hokkaido and northern Honshu in Japan and in the Korean Peninsula.[1] It reaches a maximum length of 6.9 cm.[2] This species was first formally described in 1911 by the American ichthyologist John Otterbein Snyder with its type locality given as the Ishikari River at Sapporo on Hokkaido.[3] This species is sometimes placed in the subgenus Cephalocottus. The specific name honours zoologist Shunjiro Nozawa, Director of the Fisheries Bureau on Hokkaido.[4]
| Cottus nozawae | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Family: | Cottidae |
| Genus: | Cottus |
| Species: | C. nozawae |
| Binomial name | |
| Cottus nozawae Snyder, 1911 | |
References
- Bogutskaya, N. (2020). "Cottus nozawae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T116035203A116035225. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T116035203A116035225.en. Retrieved 21 January 2023.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2014). "Cottus nozawae" in FishBase. February 2014 version.
- 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.
- 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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