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Batrachocottus baicalensis (Big-headed sculpin; Bighead sculpin)

Synonyms: Cottus baicalensis
Language: German; Mandarin Chinese; Russian

Wikipedia Abstract

Batrachocottus baicalensis, or the bighead sculpin, is one of the cottoid fishes or sculpins endemic to the Lake Baikal watershed in eastern Siberia, Russia. It lives at approximately one hundred meters depth, over stony bottoms. It can attain a length of 19 cm. It is variously considered to belong either to the family Cottocomephoridae, Cottidae or Abyssocottidae.
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Infraspecies

Batrachocottus baicalensis baicalensis
Batrachocottus baicalensis pachytus

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Barguzinskiy Biosphere Reserve Zapovednik Ia 924970 Buryatia, Russia

Prey / Diet

Boiga dendrophila (Gold-ringed Cat Snake, Mangrove Snake)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Cyathocephalus truncatus[2]
Echinorhynchus salmonis[2]
Triaenophorus nodulosus[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0