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Oligocottus maculosus (Tidepool sculpin)

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Wikipedia Abstract

The tidepool sculpin (Oligocottus maculosus), is a fish species in the sculpin family Cottidae that ranges from the Sea of Okhotsk (Russia) to Los Angeles County, California (United States). Individuals reach up to 8.9 cm (3.5 in) in length, and are common in tidepools.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve II 366714 British Columbia, Canada
Mount Arrowsmith Biosphere Reserve 293047 British Columbia, Canada  
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve II 137900 British Columbia, Canada

Prey / Diet

Cryptochiton stelleri (Giant Pacific Chiton)[1]
Exosphaeroma amplicauda (Isopod)[2]
Gnorimosphaeroma oregonense (Oregon pill bug)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Eumetopias jubatus (Steller Sea Lion)[1]
Mergus merganser (Common Merganser)[3]

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Genolinea anura[4]
Lecithaster gibbosus[4]
Macvicaria isaitschikowi[4]
Pseudodelphis oligocotti[4]
Tubulovesicula lindbergi[4]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

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.
♦ 2Food Web Relationships of Northern Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca : a Synthesis of the Available Knowledge, Charles A. Simenstad, Bruce S. Miller, Carl F. Nyblade, Kathleen Thornburgh, and Lewis J. Bledsoe, EPA-600 7-29-259 September 1979
♦ 3Szoboszlai AI, Thayer JA, Wood SA, Sydeman WJ, Koehn LE (2015) Forage species in predator diets: synthesis of data from the California Current. Ecological Informatics 29(1): 45-56. Szoboszlai AI, Thayer JA, Wood SA, Sydeman WJ, Koehn LE (2015) Data from: Forage species in predator diets: synthesis of data from the California Current. Dryad Digital Repository.
♦ 4Gibson, 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