Animalia > Chordata > Scorpaeniformes > Cottidae > Cottus > Cottus bairdiiCottus bairdii (Beard's sculpin; Blob; Bullhead; Cabezon; Columbia sculpin; Freshwater sculpin; Gudgeon; Miller's thumb; Mottled sculpin; Muddler; Sculpin; Sea raven; Speckled sculpin)Synonyms: Cottopsis semiscaber; Cottus bairdi; Cottus bairdii bairdii; Cottus bairdii kumlieni; Cottus bairdii punctulatus; Cottus bairdii semiscaber; Cottus ictalops; Cottus meridionalis (heterotypic); Cottus punctulatus; Cottus richardsoni; Cottus semiscaber; Pegedictis ictalops; Potamocottus punctulatus; Uranidea kumlieni; Uranidea richardsoni; Uranidea semiscabra; Uranidea semiscabra var. centropleura Language: French; Haida; Mandarin Chinese; Tsimshian The mottled sculpin, Cottus bairdii, is a freshwater sculpin (family Cottidae) found widely although unevenly throughout North America. As the name suggests, its coloration is a combination of bars, spots, and speckles randomly distributed. The large pectoral fins are banded. The first dorsal fin is made of slender and somewhat soft spines, and just barely joins with the second dorsal. Maximum length is 15 cm. |
| Adult Length [2] | 6 inches (15 cm) | | Brood Dispersal [2] | In a nest | | Brood Egg Substrate [2] | Speleophils (rock cavity) | | Brood Guarder [2] | Yes | | Litter Size [2] | 60 | | Maximum Longevity [2] | 6 years | | Nocturnal [1] | Yes | | Water Biome [1] | Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams |  | | Diet [1] | Carnivore | | | Female Maturity [2] | 2 years | | Male Maturity [3] | 2 years |
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Species |
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Colorado |
Mexico, United States |
Nearctic |
Xeric Freshwaters and Endorheic Basins |
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IUCN Category |
Area acres |
Location |
Species |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Antietam National Battlefield |
III |
3263 |
Maryland, United States |
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Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge |
VI |
16363 |
Delaware, United States |
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Bruce Peninsula National Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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Buffalo National River National River and Wild and Scenic Riverway |
V |
59947 |
Arkansas, United States |
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Catoctin Mountain Park National Park |
II |
5994 |
Maryland, United States |
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Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research |
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North Carolina, United States |
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Fathom Five National Marine Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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Gettysburg National Military Park |
V |
3560 |
Pennsylvania, United States |
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Grand Portage National Monument |
V |
144 |
Minnesota, United States |
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park |
II |
515454 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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H.J. Andrews Biosphere Reserve |
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15815 |
Oregon, United States |
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Harpers Ferry National Historical Park |
VI |
715 |
West Virginia, United States |
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Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore |
II |
8272 |
Indiana, United States |
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Isle Royale Biosphere Reserve |
Ib |
571799 |
Michigan, United States |
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Lassen Volcanic National Park |
II |
29388 |
California, United States |
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Morristown National Historical Park |
VI |
1677 |
New Jersey, United States |
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Niagara Escarpment Biosphere Reserve |
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470167 |
Ontario, Canada |
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North Temperate Lakes LTER Site Long Term Ecological Research |
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Wisconsin, United States |
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Pukaskwa National Park |
II |
459860 |
Ontario, Canada |
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Saint Croix International Historic Site |
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Maine, United States |
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Saint Lawrence Islands National Park |
II |
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Ontario, Canada |
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Southern Appalachian Biosphere Reserve |
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37548505 |
North Carolina, Tennessee, United States |
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Wilson's Creek National Battlefield |
V |
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Missouri, United States |
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Yellowstone Biosphere Reserve |
II |
2196863 |
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, United States |
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 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. ♦ 5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
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
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