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Clinocottus analis (Woolly sculpin)

Synonyms: Oligocottus analis
Language: Mandarin Chinese; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

Clinocottus analis is a species of fish in the family Cottidae, one of the families of sculpins. It is known commonly as the woolly sculpin in English and the charrasco lanudo in Spanish. It is native to the eastern Pacific Ocean, where it occurs along the coastline of California and Baja California. This fish reaches up to 18 centimeters in length. This species lives on the seabed of intertidal waters up to 18 meters deep. It is commonly found in tide pools amidst algaes, but it leaves the tide pool area at will. It can breathe air and has been known to survive out of water for up to 24 hours.
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Infraspecies

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Litter Size [1]  240

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Cabrillo National Monument V 149 California, United States
Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary   California, United States
Channel Islands National Park II 139010 California, United States

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1ASPECTS OF ECOLOGY AND LIFE HISTORY OF THE WOOLLY SCULPIN, CLINOCOTTUS ANALIS, FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, ALAN W. WELLS, Calif. Fish and Game 72(4): 213-226 1986
2Jorrit 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.
3Gibson, 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