Cottus bairdii

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• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
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Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Occurs in rubble and gravel riffles, less often in sand-gravel runs of headwaters , creeks and small rivers . Also found in springs and their effluents and rocky shores of lakes .

Biology

Diet

Feeds mainly on aquatic insect larvae, but also on crustaceans, annelids , fishes , fish eggs , and plant material [1].

Reproduction

Spawns in the spring [1].

Taxonomy

Synonyms

Cottus bairdi • Cottus bairdi Girard • Cottus bairdi Girard, 1850 • Cottus bairdii bairdii Girard • Cottus bairdii kumlieni (Hoy • Cottus bairdii punctulatus (Gill • Cottus bairdii semiscaber Cope • Cottus bendirei (Bean • Cottus girardi Robins • Cottus hubbsi Bailey & Dimick • Cottus hubbsi Bailey & Dimick • Cottus ictalops (Rafinesque • Cottus meridionalis Girard • Cottus richardsoni Agassiz • Cottus semiscaber Cope • Potamocottus punctulatus Gill • Uranidea kumlieni Hoy • Uranidea richardsoni (Agassiz

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: Species spelling from Eschmeyer, pers. comm.

Similar Species

Fish Name Pelvic Rays Prickles Lateral Line Dorsal Fins Gill Membranes Exposed (not covered with skin) Preoperculer Spines Midline Chin Pores Palatine Teeth Ratio of Caudal Peduncle Length to Post-Orbital Distance Similarity Index Comments Deepwater Sculpin 3 Few, just above lateral line Complete, or nearly so 1st and 2nd clearly separate Narrowly joined, meet at acute angle 2-4; largest greater than or equal to 1/2 of eye diameter in length 1-2? Present less than or equal to 1 Very similar Mottled Sculpin 4 Few, below lateral line Ends below 2nd dorsal fin 1st and 2nd touching Broadly joined, meet at shallow angle 1; ~1/2 of eye diameter in length 2 Usually present less than or equal to 1 N/A Moderately similar to round goby and tubenose goby, but distinguishable by its pair of free and independent pelvic fins and its lack of scales. In the gobies, the two pelvic fins are fused to form a disk and scales are present. Slimy Sculpin 3 Few, below lateral line Ends below 2nd dorsal fin 1st and 2nd touching Broadly joined, meet at shallow angle 1; ~1/2 of eye diameter in length 2 Usually absent greater than or equal to 1 Very similar Spoonhead Sculpin 4 Many, on head and back Complete 1st and 2nd touching Broadly joined, meet at shallow angle 1; greater than 2/3 of eye diameter in length 1 Absent less than or equal to 1 Very similar

Members of the genus Cottus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 98 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. affinis (Rough Sculpin) · C. aleuticus (Coastrange Sculpin) · C. amblystomopsis (Sakhalin Sculpin) · C. asper (Prickly Bullhead) · C. asperrimus (Rough Sculpin) · C. aturi (Adour Sculpin) · C. australis (Eastern Fortesque) · C. baicalensis (Big-Headed Sculpin) · C. baileyi (Black Sculpin) · C. bairdi (Freshwater Sculpin) · C. bairdii (Rocky Mountain Bullhead) · C. bairdii bairdii (Freshwater Sculpin) · C. bairdii hubbsi (Columbia Mottled Sculpin) · C. bairdi bairdi (Freshwater Sculpin) · C. bairdi hubbsi (Columbia Mottled Sculpin) · C. beldingi (Paiute Sculpin) · C. beldingii (Paiute Sculpin) · C. bendirei (Malheur Sculpin) · C. bicornis (Twohorn Sculpin) · C. bubalis (Longspined Sea-Scorpion) · C. caeruleomentum (Blue Ridge Sculpin) · C. carolinae (Banded Sculpin) · C. carolinae carolinae (Banded Sculpin) · C. carolinae infernatis (Banded Sculpin) · C. cataphractus (Armed Bullhead) · C. cognatus (Western Slimy Sculpin) · C. cognatus cognatus (Western Slimy Sculpin) · C. cognatus gracilis (Bear Lake Bullhead) · C. confusus (Shorthead Sculpin) · C. czerskii (Cherskii's Sculpin) · C. diceraus (Antlered Sculpin) · C. duranii (Dordogne Sculpin) · C. echinatus (Utah Lake Sculpin) · C. extensus (Bear Lake Sculpin) · C. girardi (Potomac Sculpin) · C. gobio (Freshwater Sculpin) · C. gobio gobio (Freshwater Sculpin) · C. gobio jaxartensis (Bullhead) · C. gracilis (Yellow-Fin Baikal Sculpin) · C. greenei (Shoshone Sculpin) · C. grunniens (Grunting Toadfish) · C. gulosus (Riffle Sculpin) · C. haemusi (Vit Sculpin) · C. hemilepidotus (Red Irish Lord) · C. hispaniolensis (Pyrrenean Sculpin) · C. hubbsi (Columbia Sculpin) · C. hypselurus (Wood River Sculpin) · C. bairdii (Longfin Baikal Sculpin) · C. jaok (Plain Sculpin) · C. japonicus (Red Baikal Sculpin) · C. kazika (Baunt Sand Sculpin) · C. kessleri bauntovi (Baunt Sand Sculpin) · C. klamathensis (Marbled Sculpin) · C. kneri (Stone Sculpin) · C. koshewnikowi (Volga Sculpin) · C. leiopomus (Wood River Sculpin) · C. lilljeborgii (Norway Bullhead) · C. maculatus (Vitim Sculpin) · C. marginatus (Margined Sculpin) · C. bairdii (Southern Miller's Thumb) · C. metae (Save Sculpin) · C. microstomus (Baltic Sculpin) · C. monopterygius (Atlantic Alligatorfish) · C. nasalis (Tubenose Sculpin) · C. niger (Warthead Sculpin) · C. octodecemspinosus (Long-Spined Sculpin) · C. otaitensis (Frill-Lip Flathead) · C. paulus (Pygmy Sculpin) · C. perifretum (Bullhead) · C. perplexus (Reticulate Hookjaw Moray) · C. pistilliger (Threaded Sculpin) · C. pitensis (Pit Sculpin) · C. platycephalus (Belligerent Sculpin) · C. poecilopus (Siberian Bullhead) · C. poecilopus poecilopus (Mottlefoot Sculpin) · C. poecilopus volki (Alpine Bullhead) · C. pollux (Japanese Fluvial Sculpin) · C. polyacanthocephalus (Great Sculpin) · C. princeps (Klamath Lake Sculpin) · C. paulus (Pygmy Sculpin) · C. quadricornis (Alaska Fourhorn Sculpin) · C. rhenanus (Rhine Sculpin) · C. rhothea (Torrent Sculpin) · C. rhotheus (Torrent Sculpin) · C. ricei (Rice´s Sculpin) · C. rondeleti (H?rault Sculpin) · C. scaber (Rough Flat Head) · C. scaturigo (Timavo Sculpin) · C. scorpius (Daddy Sculpin) · C. sibiricus (Siberian Miller's Thumb) · C. spinulosus (Turkestan Sculpin) · C. tenuis (Slender Sculpin) · C. thomsonii (Pallid Sculpin) · C. transsilvaniae (Arges Sculpin) · C. tricuspis (Arctic Staghorn Sculpin) · C. uncinatus (Arctic Hookear Sculpin) · C. verrucosus (Warty Sculpin) · C. villosus (Woods' Clingfish)

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Further Reading

• A biological survey of the Erie-Niagara system. Supplemental to Eighteenth annual report, 1928. Albany, J. B. Lyon company, printers, 1929. url p. 178.
• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. url p. 369.
• Annual report of the Ohio State Academy of Science. Columbus: The Academy, 1893-1930. url p. 104.
• Bulletin / Illinois Natural History Survey. Urbana, State of Illinois, Dept. of Registration and Education, Natural History Survey Division, 1918-1985. url p. 490, p. 496.
• California fish and game. [San Francisco, etc.]: State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game. url p. 166, p. 170, p. 387.
• Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum / by Albert Gu?nther. .. [Tokyo?]: Kagaku Kisho Hakkokai, Sho?wa 13 [1938]. url p. 158.
• Contributions to the natural history of the fresh water fishes of North America. By Charles Girard. I. A monograph of the cottoids [Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1851 url p. 44.
• Dean bibliography of fishes. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1971-1973. url p. 187, p. 249, p. 265, p. 292, p. 340, p. 78.
• Effects of highways on wildlife and fish with special reference to Montana a ProCite literature collection / Bozeman, Mont.: Fish and Wildlife Management Program, Montana State University, 2001 url .
• Fertilization in fishes and the problem of polyspermy = Oplodotvorenie u ryb i problema polispermii / by A.S. Ginzburg; edited by T.A. Detlaf. Jerusalem: Israel Program for Scientific Translations, 1972. url p. 111, p. 341.
• Field book of ponds and streams; an introduction to the life of fresh water, by Ann Haven Morgan. .. with about 330 illustrations, including 23 plates in color and black and white. New York, G. P. Putnam's sons, 1930. url p. 345.
• Fishes of Canada's national capital region = Poissons de la région de la capitale du Canada / Ottawa: Dept. of the Environment, Fisheries and Marine Service, 1974. url p. 10, p. 174, p. 189, p. 193, p. 20.
• Illinois biological monographs. Urbana, Univ. of Illinois Press. url p. 237.
• Inshore Lake Michigan fish populations near the D.C. Cook Nuclear Power Plant during preoperational years, 1973, 1974 / Ann Arbor, Mich.: Great Lakes Research Division, University of Michigan, 1979. url p. 521.
• North American pseudophyllidean cestodes from fishes. [UrbanaUniversity of Illinois][c1919] url p. 263.
• Northern fishes: with special reference to the Upper Mississippi Valley / [by] Samuel Eddy and Thaddeus Surber. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, [1947] url p. 252, p. 253.
• Occasional papers of the Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 1913- url p. 5.
• Our living resources: a report to the nation on the distribution, abundance, and health of U.S. plants, animals, and ecosystems / [edited by], Edward T. LaRoe. .. [et al.]. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Biological Service, 1995. url p. 510.
• Pamphlets on forestry. Fish and game. [1900?- url p. 1951, p. 1952.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url , p. 14, p. 21, p. 404, p. 404.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 14, p. 19, p. 204, p. 26, p. 286, p. 315.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 567, p. 701.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 452, p. 906.
• Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries for the fiscal year. .. with appendixes Washington: G.P.O., 1914- url p. 385.
• Sex and internal secretions. Contributors: A. Albert [and others] Foreword by George W. Corner. Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1961. url p. 1077, p. 1531.
• Some considerations on the distribution of fishes in Ontario. [Toronto]: Printed by the University of Toronto Press, 1944. url p. 113, p. 45, p. 46, p. 7.
• Special papers / Ohio Academy of Sciences. Columbus, Ohio: The Academy, 1899-1929. url p. 104.
• Syllogeus. Ottawa, National Museum of Natural Sciences, 1972-1995. url p. 10, p. 11, p. 3, p. 9.
• The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, url p. 163.
• The Canadian field-naturalist. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url p. 175, p. 210, p. 211, p. 259, p. 273.
• The ecology and economics of Oneida Lake fish / by Charles C. Adams and T.L. Hankinson. Syracuse, N.Y.: Roosevelt Wild Life Forest Experiment Station, c1928. url p. 512, p. 513.
• The fishes of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama / by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, United States National Museum, 1896-1900. url p. 1952.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• FishBase 2006.
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Froese, R., and D. Pauly. FishBase 2004. International Center for Living Aquatic Resources Management.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 7 providers.
• Iwamoto, Tomio (from FishBase).
• Lyons, John. WiscFish.org University of Wisconsin, Center for Limnology, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, University of Wisconsin Sea Grant. Provided photos, physical description, and table comparing similar species.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:

• Burke Museum: University of Washington Fish Collection
• Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection
• Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates: Fish Collection
• FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Atlantic Reference Centre (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Canadian Museum of Nature - Fish Collection (OBIS Canada)
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie
• Royal Ontario Museum: Fish specimens
• University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center: Fish Collection
• University of Minnesota Bell Museum of Natural History: Fish specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 124932
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-48934
• Fishbase Species ID: 4065
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13851712
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 167261
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 108125

Footnotes

1. Scott, W.B. and E.J. Crossman (1973). Freshwater fishes of Canada. Bull. Fish. Res. Board Can. 184:1-966. [back]

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