Cottus koshewnikowi Gratzianov 1907

Artaev, Oleg & Ruchin, Alexander B., 2017, The ichthyofauna of the Moksha River, a tributary of the Volga river basin, Russia, Check List 13 (4), pp. 185-202 : 200

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scientific name	Cottus koshewnikowi Gratzianov 1907
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Cottus koshewnikowi Gratzianov 1907 View in CoL , Volga Sculpin.

Cottus koshewnikowi Gratzianov 1907: 658 View in CoL — Kottelat and Freyhof

2007: 511.

Cottus gobio View in CoL — Reshetnikov et al. 2003b: 163, non C. gobio Linnaeus, View in CoL

1758.

Material examined. Fig. 6D.

Presence of 1 lower jaw pore, and incomplete lateral line usually with 17–25 pores. This is the only species of the genus Cottus in the Volga river drainage. It is a rare species, inhabiting only rivers system. Five localities are known to the distribution of this species and are shown in Fig. 4 ( Artaev and Ruchin 2015), one of them ( Fig. 4, easternmost point) housing a stable population; the remaining cases represent solitary catches.

References

Artaev ON, Ruchin AB (2015) Rare fishes and fish-like vertebrates of Mordovia: Analysis of factual data on distribution and abundance. Trudy Mordovskogo Gosudarstvennogo zapovednika 20 (2): 425 - 429.

Gratzianov VI (1907) Ubersicht der Susswassercottiden des russischen Reiches. Zoologischer Anzeiger 31 (21 / 22): 654 - 660.

Kottelat M, Freyhof J (2007) Handbook of European Freshwater Fishes. The authors, Cornol / Berlin, 646 pp.

Linnaeus C (1758) Systema naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, ed. 10. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae, 824 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 542

Reshetnikov YuS, Popova OA, Sokolov LI, Tsepkin EA, Sideleva VG, Dorofeeva EA, Chereshnev IA, Moskal'kova KI, Dgebuadze YuYu, Ruban GI, Korolev VV (2003 b) Atlas of Russian Freshwater Fishes 2. Nauka, Moscow, 253 pp.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Actinopterygii
Order	Scorpaeniformes
Family	Cottidae
Genus	Cottus