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Cottus carolinae (Banded sculpin)

Synonyms: Cottus carolinae carolinae; Potamocottus carolinae
Language: Mandarin Chinese

Wikipedia Abstract

The banded sculpin (Cottus carolinae) is a freshwater fish dwelling mostly in small to moderate sized streams in areas of swift current. Young and juvenile C. carolinae can mainly be found in pools, riffles, and other shallow habitats while adults tend to prefer deeper waters. Mating and nesting for the sculpin is in spring, with males carefully guarding the eggs until they hatch.
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Infraspecies

Cottus carolinae infernatis

Attributes

Adult Length [2]  7 inches (18 cm)
Brood Dispersal [2]  In a nest
Brood Egg Substrate [2]  Speleophils (rock cavity)
Brood Guarder [2]  Yes
Litter Size [2]  475
Maximum Longevity [2]  4 years
Nocturnal [1]  Yes
Water Biome [1]  Benthic, Rivers and Streams
Diet [1]  Carnivore
Female Maturity [2]  2 years
Male Maturity [3]  2 years

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Caecidotea brevicauda[4]
Etheostoma flabellare (Fantail darter)[5]
Gammarus bousfieldi (Bousfield amphipod)[4]
Gammarus minus[4]
Semotilus atromaculatus (Horned dace)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 3de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 4Jorrit 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.
♦ 5Food Habits of the Banded Sculpin (Cottus carolinae) in Oklahoma With Reference to Predation on the Oklahoma Salamander (Eurycea tynerensis), Renn Tumlison and George R. Cline, Proc. Okla. Acad. Sci. 82:111-113(2002)
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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