Batrachocottus

Batrachocottus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Superfamily: Cottoidea (sculpins)
Family: Cottocomephoridae (but see text)
Genus: Batrachocottus
L. S. Berg, 1903

Batrachocottus is a genus of fish endemic to Lake Baikal in Russia. This genus of sculpins (Cottoidea) is variously considered to belong either to the family Cottocomephoridae,[1] Cottidae[2] or Abyssocottidae.[3]

Species

There are currently four recognized species in this genus:[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2012). Species of Batrachocottus in FishBase. December 2012 version.
  2. Eschmeyer W (2015) baicalensis, Cottus Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences.
  3. Tytti Kontula, Sergei V. Kirilchik, 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.
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