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Mesocottus haitej (Sculpin)

Synonyms: Cottus haitej
Language: Mandarin Chinese; Russian

Wikipedia Abstract

The Amur sculpin Mesocottus haitej is a species of freshwater sculpin native to 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 length of 20 centimetres (7.9 in) TL. This species is the only known member of its genus. According to the result of a pilot phylogenetic analysis, the freshwater Mesocottus is a sister lineage to the Cottus clade.
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Predators

Mergus squamatus (Scaly-sided Merganser)[1]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Cyathocephalus truncatus[2]
Nanophyetus salmincola[2]
Raphidascaris acus[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Scaly-sided Merganser, BirdLife International (2001) Threatened birds of Asia: the BirdLife International Red Data Book. Cambridge, UK: BirdLife International.
♦ 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