WoRMS taxon details
Oligocottus maculosus Girard, 1856
281872 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:281872)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Girard, C. F. (1856). Contributions to the ichthyology of the western coast of the United States, from specimens in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 8: 131-137., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/34406 [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Oligocottus maculosus Girard, 1856. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=281872 on 2026-02-17
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Nomenclature
original description
Girard, C. F. (1856). Contributions to the ichthyology of the western coast of the United States, from specimens in the museum of the Smithsonian Institution. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> v. 8: 131-137., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/34406 [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | tidepool sculpin | [details] |
| French | chabot de bâche | [details] |
| Japanese | ブチカジカ | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (26 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (53 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Oligocottus maculosus)
To FishBase
To GenBank (84 nucleotides; 77 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Oligocottus maculosus P08736 illustration)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (53 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Oligocottus maculosus)
To FishBase
To GenBank (84 nucleotides; 77 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Oligocottus maculosus P08736 illustration)
To ITIS
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