Animalia > Chordata > Scorpaeniformes > Comephoridae > Comephorus > Comephorus dybowskii

Comephorus dybowskii (lesser oilfish; Lesser livebearing sculpin; Little Baikal oilfish)

Synonyms: Comephorus dybowski
Language: Danish; German; Mandarin Chinese; Russian

Attributes

Migration [1]  Potamodromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Barguzinskiy Biosphere Reserve Zapovednik Ia 924970 Buryatia, Russia

Prey / Diet

Epischura baicalensis[2]
Macrohectopus branickii[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Comephorus baikalensis (greater oilfish)2

Predators

Pusa sibirica (Baikal Seal)[3]

Consumers

External References

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
♦ 2Feeding ecology of two planktonic sculpins, Comephorus baicalensis and Comephorus dybowskii (Comephoridae), in Lake Baikal, Hitoshi Miyasaka, Yelena V. Dzyuba, Motomi Genkai-Kato, Sayaka Ito, Ayato Kohzu, Pavel N. Anoshko, Igor V. Khanayev, Sergey G. Shubenkov, Natalia G. Melnik, Oleg A. Timoshkin, and Eitaro Wada, Ichthyol Res (2006) 53: 419–422
♦ 3Phoca sibirica, Jeanette Thomas, Vladamir Pastukhov, Robert Elsner, and Eugene Petrov, Mammalian Species No. 188, pp. 1-6 (1982)
♦ 4Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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