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