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Prickly Sculpin
Cottus asper Richardson, 1836
Also calledPigget ulk (dan) · chabot piquant (fra) · vranka pichlavá (ces) · Колючий подкаменщик (rus)
First described in: Richardson, J. (1836). The Fish. In: Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the zoology of the northern parts of British America: containing descriptions of the objects of natural history collected on the late northern land expeditions, under the command of Sir John Franklin, R.N. <em>J. Bentley, London.</em> Part 3: i-xv + 1-327, Pls. 74-97. [Reference was incorrectly given as 1837; correct date is 1836 (WNE June 12, 2015).].
Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF
description
Prickly Sculpin. To 19.2 cm (7.7 in) SL (Coad 1995). Seward, Alaska (coast of northern Gulf of Alaska) to Ventura River, southern California (Morrow 1980). Benthic, usually in fresh water, occasionally in estuaries and nearshore marine waters (Mecklenburg et al. 2002); depth: to 92 m (300 ft) (Pietsch and Orr 2019).
Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2334177.