WoRMS taxon details
Cottus cognatus Richardson, 1836
AphiaID: 159512
AphiaID: 159512
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Chordata (Phylum) > Vertebrata (Subphylum) > Gnathostomata (Superclass) > Pisces (Superclass) > Actinopterygii (Class) > Scorpaeniformes (Order) > Cottidae (Family) > Cottus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Cottus Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cottus boleoides Girard, 1850 Cottus chamberlaini Evermann & Goldsborough, 1907 Cottus formosus Girard, 1851 Cottus franklini Agassiz, 1850 Cottus gracilis Heckel, 1837 Cottus kaganowskii Berg, 1932 Cottus philonips Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1892 Uranidea boleoides (Girard, 1850) Uranidea formosa (Girard, 1851) Uranidea franklini (Agassiz, 1850) Uranidea gracilis (Heckel, 1837) Uranidea hoyi Putnam, 1876 Uranidea quiescens DeKay, 1842 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Fishbase, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] basis of record: Gulf of Maine Biogeographic Information System (GMBIS) Electronic Atlas. 2002. November, 2002. [details] additional source: FishBase, version december 2007, available online at http://www.fishbase.org [details] additional source: FishBase, version may 2009 [details] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Environment | |||||||||||
| Distribution | British Columbia [details] Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details] Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia [details] FAO fishing area 67 [details] Hudson Bay [details] Hudson Strait [details] North East Pacific [details] North Pacific [details] North West Atlantic [details] North West Territories [details] Ungava Bay [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Ergasilus nerkae Roberts, 1963 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Barcode of Life (62 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (93 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (71 nucleotides; 52 proteins) To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Diet: Feeds mostly on aquatic insect larvae and nymphs but also on crustaceans, small fishes, and plant materials [details] Distribution: North America: throughout most of mainland Canada and Alaska; Atlantic Slope drainages south to Potomac River in Virginia, USA; St. Lawrence-Great Lakes basin; upper Mississippi River basin in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa, USA; upper Columbia River drainage in Canada and USA; also in Siberia, Russia [details] Habitat: Inhabits rocky riffles of cold streams, rocky areas of lakes (commonly at 90-106 m depth), springs and their effluents. [details] Habitat: benthic [details] Importance: Social- show aquarium [details] Reproduction: presumably moving to and from fresh water, at least for spawning [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159512 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bailly, N. (2013). Cottus cognatus Richardson, 1836. In: Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2013) FishBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159512 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||
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