Batrachocottus is a genus of freshwater ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. These fishes are endemic to the Lake Baikal watershed in Russia.
| Batrachocottus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Family: | Cottidae |
| Genus: | Batrachocottus L. S. Berg, 1903 |
| Type species | |
| Cottus baicalensis | |
Taxonomy edit
Batrachocottus was first proposed as a monospecific genus in 1903 by the Russian ichthyologist Lev Berg with Cottus baicalensis as its type species.[1] This genus was not mentioned by the 5th edition of Fishes of the World[2] and has been placed in the family Cottidae by some authorities.[1] and in the subfamily Abyssocottinae by others. However, other authorities have used phylogenetic studies which have found that Baikal sculpins that were classified in the subfamilies Comephorinae and Abyssocottinae by Fishes of the World radiated from an ancestor which was likely to be within the genus Cottus and that the classification of the Baikal sculpins in a different taxon from Cottus was paraphyletic.[3][4]
Species edit
There are currently four recognized species in this genus:[5]
- Batrachocottus baicalensis (Dybowski, 1874) (Bighead sculpin)
- Batrachocottus multiradiatus L. S. Berg, 1907
- Batrachocottus nikolskii (L. S. Berg, 1900) (Fat sculpin)
- Batrachocottus talievi Sideleva, 1999
References edit
- ^ a b c Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Cottidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
- ^ J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 467–495. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2023-03-05.
- ^ W. Leo Smith & Morgan S. Busby (2014). "Phylogeny and taxonomy of sculpins, sandfishes, and snailfishes (Perciformes: Cottoidei) with comments on the phylogenetic significance of their early-life-history specializations". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 79: 332–352. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.06.028. PMID 25014569.
- ^ Tytti Kontula; Sergei V. Kirilchik; and Risto Väinölä (2003). "Endemic diversification of the monophyletic cottoid fish species flock in Lake Baikal explored with mtDNA sequencing]". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 27 (1): 143–155. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00376-7. PMID 12679079.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Batrachocottus in FishBase. December 2012 version.
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