Cottus aleuticus Gilbert, 1896

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Cottus aleuticus Gilbert, 1896 .

Coastrange Sculpin. To 17.2 cm (6.8 in) TL ( Hubbs 1921). Kobuk River (drains to Kotzebue Sound, eastern Chukchi Sea) ( Morrow 1980); Bristol Bay, Alaska Peninsula, and Aleutian Islands drainages (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Oso Flaco Creek, Santa Barbara County, central California ( Swift et al. 1993). Brackish and fresh waters ( Wydoski and Whitney 1979) and nearshore coastal marine waters ( Pietsch and Orr 2019); migrates downstream to estuaries and lower reaches of rivers in spring to spawn ( Morrow 1980).