Amur sculpin
| Amur sculpin | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Suborder: | Cottoidei |
| Family: | Cottidae |
| Subfamily: | Cottinae |
| Genus: | Gratzianov, 1907 |
| Species: | M. haitej
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| Binomial name | |
| Mesocottus haitej (Dybowski, 1869)
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The Amur sculpin (Mesocottus haitej), also known as the Ussuri sculpin, is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. This species is found in eastern Asia where it is found in Russia, China and Mongolia - in the Amur River basin and some adjacent territories (the Tugur and the Uda Rivers flowing into the Sea of Okhotsk north from the Amur River, north-west of Sakhalin Island opposite the mouth of the Amur River). The Amur sculpin grows to a maximum published total length of 20 cm (7.9 in).[1] This species is the only known member of its genus, Mesocottus. According to the result of a pilot phylogenetic analysis, the freshwater Mesocottus is a sister lineage to the Cottus clade.[2]
References
- ^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Mesocottus haitej". FishBase. December 2012 version.
- ^ Shedko, SV; Miroshnichenko, IL; Nemkova, GA (Jul 31, 2013). "Complete mitochondrial genome of the poorly known Amur sculpin Mesocottus haitej (Cottoidei: Cottidae)". Mitochondrial DNA. 26: 147–148. doi:10.3109/19401736.2013.819496. PMID 23901915.