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Cottus bairdii Girard, 1850

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
Girard, C. F. (1850). A monograph of the freshwater Cottus of North America. <em>Proceedings of AAAS (The American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2nd meeting,.</em> 1849: 409-411.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Scorpaeniformes
family
Cottidae
genus
Cottus
species
Cottus bairdii

Name

Synonyms
Cottopsis semiscaber Cope, 1872
Cottus bairdii bairdii
Cottus bairdii kumlieni (Hoy, 1876)
Cottus bairdii punctulatus (Gill, 1861)
Cottus bairdii semiscaber (Cope, 1872)
Cottus hubbsi bairdii Girard, 1850
Cottus ictalops (Rafinesque, 1820)
Cottus meridionalis Girard, 1850
Cottus punctulatus (Gill, 1861)
Cottus richardsoni Agassiz, 1850
Cottus semiscaber (Cope, 1872)
Pegedictis ictalops Rafinesque, 1820
Potamocottus punctulatus Gill, 1861
Uranidea kumlieni Hoy, 1876
Uranidea richardsoni (Agassiz, 1850)
Uranidea semiscabra (Cope, 1872)
Uranidea semiscabra var. centropleura Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1889
Homonyms
Cottus bairdii Girard, 1850
Common names
Beard's Sculpin in English
Blob in English
Bullhead in English
Cabezon in English
Cabezón in English
Columbia Sculpin in English
Freshwater Sculpin in English
Gudgeon in English
Miller's Thumb in English
Mottled Sculpin in English
Muddler in English
Sculpin in English
Sea Raven in English
Speckled Sculpin in English
chabot tacheté in French
chabot tacheté in French
chabot tacheté in French
mottled sculpin in English
mottled sculpin in English
mottled sculpin in English
Mottled Sculpin in English
chabot tacheté in French
mottled sculpin in English

Bibliographic References

  1. Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes, 2003: null. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
  2. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  3. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  4. Girard, C. F. (1850). A monograph of the freshwater Cottus of North America. <em>Proceedings of AAAS (The American Association for the Advancement of Science) 2nd meeting,.</em> 1849: 409-411.
  5. 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). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  6. Nelson, Joseph S., Edwin J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, et al., eds., 2004: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Sixth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 29. ix + 386.
  7. Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1980: A List of Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fourth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 12. 174.
  8. Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1991: Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fifth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 20. 183.
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