Cottus gulosus gulosus ( Girard 1854 )

Moyle, Peter B. & Campbell, Matthew A., 2022, Cryptic Species of Freshwater Sculpin (Cottidae: Cottus) in California, USA, Zootaxa 5154 (5), pp. 501-527 : 517

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5154.5.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6655467

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Cottus gulosus gulosus ( Girard 1854 )
status

 

Cottus gulosus gulosus ( Girard 1854) View in CoL , San Joaquin Riffle Sculpin, nominate subspecies

Description is the same as for the C. gulosus ( Fig. 1 View FIGURE 1 )

Holotype: USNM 291 About USNM . Same as for C. gulosus , above.

Paratype: None designated

Diagnosis: Distinguished from other members of the C. gulosus complex as a distinct lineage as determined by genomic studies ( Baumsteiger et al. 2014, this study) and by its limited geographic distribution ( Fig. 3 View FIGURE 3 ). See species description for distinguishing it from co-occurring C. asper .

Distribution. These California endemic sculpins are found in cold-water riffles, in headwaters or below dams with cold water releases into rivers in the southern Sierra Nevada on the eastern side of the Central Valley, except for the American River (which flows directly into the Sacramento River), the rivers that contain now-isolated populations all flow into the southern Central Valley, especially the San Joaquin River. Rivers with populations include the Mokelumne, Stanislaus, Tuolumne, Merced, Fresno, San Joaquin, Kings, and Kern rivers.

Etymology. See C. gulosus

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Scorpaeniformes

Family

Cottidae

Genus

Cottus

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