Cottus (genus)

Cottus
Cottus gobio in Lake Constance
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Scorpaeniformes
Family:	Cottidae
Genus:	Cottus Linnaeus, 1758
Type species
Cottus gobio Linnaeus, 1758
Species
See text.

Cottus is a genus of the sculpin family Cottidae. It is often referred to as the "freshwater sculpins", as the principal genus of sculpins to be found in fresh water.

They are mostly small fish, rarely reaching more than 15 cm in length.

Species

• Cottus roopster Roop, 2010
• Cottus aleuticus Gilbert, 1896 - coastrange sculpin
• Cottus amblystomopsis Schmidt, 1904
• Cottus asper Richardson, 1836 - prickly sculpin
• Cottus asperrimus Rutter, 1908 - rough sculpin
• Cottus aturi Freyhof, Kottelat and Nolte, 2005
• Cottus baileyi Robins, 1961 - black sculpin
• Cottus bairdii Girard, 1850 - chabot tachet?, mottled sculpin
• Cottus beldingii Eigenmann and Eigenmann, 1891 - Paiute sculpin
• Cottus bendirei (Bean, 1881) - Malheur sculpin
• Cottus (or Taurulus) bubalis - Long-spined Sea Scorpion
• Cottus caeruleomentum Kinziger, Raesly and Neely, 2000 - Blue Ridge sculpin
• Cottus carolinae (Gill, 1861) - banded sculpin
• Cottus chattahoochee Neely, Williams & Mayden, 2007 - Chattahoochee sculpin
• Cottus cognatus Richardson, 1836 - chabot visqueux, slimy sculpin
• Cottus confusus Bailey and Bond, 1963 - shorthead sculpin
• Cottus czerskii Berg, 1913
• Cottus duranii Freyhof, Kottelat and Nolte, 2005
• Cottus echinatus Bailey and Bond, 1963 - Utah Lake sculpin
• Cottus extensus Bailey and Bond, 1963 - Bear Lake sculpin
• Cottus ferrugineus Heckel and Kner, 1858
• Cottus girardi Robins, 1961 - Potomac sculpin
• Cottus gobio Linnaeus, 1758 - bullhead, freshwater sculpin
• Cottus greenei (Gilbert and Culver in Jordan and Evermann, 1898) - Shoshone sculpin
• Cottus gulosus (Girard, 1854) - riffle sculpin
• Cottus hangiongensis Mori, 1930
• Cottus hispaniolensis Bacescu and Bacescu-Mester, 1964
• Cottus hubbsi Bailey and Dimick, 1949 - Columbia sculpin
• Cottus hypselurus Robins and Robison, 1985 - Ozark sculpin, Wood River sculpin
• Cottus kanawhae Robins, 2005
• Cottus kazika Jordan and Starks, 1904 - fourspine sculpin
• Cottus klamathensis Gilbert, 1898 - marbled sculpin
• Cottus koreanus Fujii, Choi and Yabe, 2005
• Cottus koshewnikowi Gratzianov, 1907
• Cottus leiopomus Gilbert and Evermann, 1894 - Wood River sculpin
• Cottus marginatus (Bean, 1881) - margined sculpin
• Cottus metae Freyhof, Kottelat and Nolte, 2005
• Cottus microstomus Heckel, 1837
• Cottus nasalis Berg, 1933
• Cottus nozawae Snyder, 1911
• Cottus paulus Williams, 2000 - pygmy sculpin
• Cottus perifretum Freyhof, Kottelat and Nolte, 2005
• Cottus perplexus Gilbert and Evermann, 1894 - reticulate sculpin
• Cottus petiti Bacescu and Bacescu-Mester, 1964
• Cottus pitensis Bailey and Bond, 1963 - Pit sculpin
• Cottus poecilopus Heckel, 1837 - alpine bullhead
• Cottus pollux Günther, 1873
• Cottus princeps Gilbert, 1898 - Klamath Lake sculpin
• Cottus reinii Hilgendorf, 1879
• Cottus rhenanus Freyhof, Kottelat and Nolte, 2005
• Cottus rhotheus (Smith, 1882) - torrent sculpin
• Cottus ricei (Nelson, 1876) - spoonhead sculpin
• Cottus rondeleti Freyhof, Kottelat and Nolte, 2005
• Cottus scaturigo Freyhof, Kottelat and Nolte, 2005
• Cottus sibiricus Kessler in Warpachowski, 1889 - Siberian sculpin
• Cottus spinulosus Kessler, 1872
• Cottus szanaga Dybowski, 1869
• Cottus tallapoosae Neely, Williams & Mayden, 2007 - Tallapoosa sculpin
• Cottus tenuis (Evermann and Meek, 1898) - slender sculpin
• Cottus transsilvaniae Freyhof, Kottelat and Nolte, 2005
• Cottus volki Taranetz, 1933

References

• Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2010). Species of Cottus in FishBase. February 2010 version.