Cottus petiti

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Family : Sculpins ; Laboratory experiments, using natural photoperiod and constant temperature of 15-16¦C corresponding with those of its habitat , showed that a female could lay eggs several times with less than one month interval. Between 20 to 70 eggs of relatively large size (2.1 mm) are laid[1].

Vulnerable

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Ecology: The Lez River is fed by a large resurgence draining a karstic plateau . Substrate is gravel and stony beds , temperature rarely exceed 20°C. Discharge is very regular.[2].

List of Habitats :

•     5     Wetlands (inland)   
  
•     5.1     Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls )   
  
•     5.9     Wetlands (inland) - Freshwater Springs and Oases   
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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Similar Species

Members of the genus Cottus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 98 species and subspecies in this genus:

C. affinis (Rough Sculpin) · C. aleuticus (Coastrange Sculpin) · C. amblystomopsis (Sakhalin Sculpin) · C. asper (Prickly Bullhead) · C. asperrimus (Rough Sculpin) · C. aturi (Adour Sculpin) · C. australis (Eastern Fortesque) · C. baicalensis (Big-Headed Sculpin) · C. baileyi (Black Sculpin) · C. bairdi (Freshwater Sculpin) · C. bairdii (Rocky Mountain Bullhead) · C. bairdii bairdii (Freshwater Sculpin) · C. bairdii hubbsi (Columbia Mottled Sculpin) · C. bairdi bairdi (Freshwater Sculpin) · C. bairdi hubbsi (Columbia Mottled Sculpin) · C. beldingi (Paiute Sculpin) · C. beldingii (Paiute Sculpin) · C. bendirei (Malheur Sculpin) · C. bicornis (Twohorn Sculpin) · C. bubalis (Longspined Sea-Scorpion) · C. caeruleomentum (Blue Ridge Sculpin) · C. carolinae (Banded Sculpin) · C. carolinae carolinae (Banded Sculpin) · C. carolinae infernatis (Banded Sculpin) · C. cataphractus (Armed Bullhead) · C. cognatus (Western Slimy Sculpin) · C. cognatus cognatus (Western Slimy Sculpin) · C. cognatus gracilis (Bear Lake Bullhead) · C. confusus (Shorthead Sculpin) · C. czerskii (Cherskii's Sculpin) · C. diceraus (Antlered Sculpin) · C. duranii (Dordogne Sculpin) · C. echinatus (Utah Lake Sculpin) · C. extensus (Bear Lake Sculpin) · C. girardi (Potomac Sculpin) · C. gobio (Freshwater Sculpin) · C. gobio gobio (Freshwater Sculpin) · C. gobio jaxartensis (Bullhead) · C. gracilis (Yellow-Fin Baikal Sculpin) · C. greenei (Shoshone Sculpin) · C. grunniens (Grunting Toadfish) · C. gulosus (Riffle Sculpin) · C. haemusi (Vit Sculpin) · C. hemilepidotus (Red Irish Lord) · C. hispaniolensis (Pyrrenean Sculpin) · C. hubbsi (Columbia Sculpin) · C. hypselurus (Wood River Sculpin) · C. bairdii (Longfin Baikal Sculpin) · C. jaok (Plain Sculpin) · C. japonicus (Red Baikal Sculpin) · C. kazika (Baunt Sand Sculpin) · C. kessleri bauntovi (Baunt Sand Sculpin) · C. klamathensis (Marbled Sculpin) · C. kneri (Stone Sculpin) · C. koshewnikowi (Volga Sculpin) · C. leiopomus (Wood River Sculpin) · C. lilljeborgii (Norway Bullhead) · C. maculatus (Vitim Sculpin) · C. marginatus (Margined Sculpin) · C. bairdii (Southern Miller's Thumb) · C. metae (Save Sculpin) · C. microstomus (Baltic Sculpin) · C. monopterygius (Atlantic Alligatorfish) · C. nasalis (Tubenose Sculpin) · C. niger (Warthead Sculpin) · C. octodecemspinosus (Long-Spined Sculpin) · C. otaitensis (Frill-Lip Flathead) · C. paulus (Pygmy Sculpin) · C. perifretum (Bullhead) · C. perplexus (Reticulate Hookjaw Moray) · C. pistilliger (Threaded Sculpin) · C. pitensis (Pit Sculpin) · C. platycephalus (Belligerent Sculpin) · C. poecilopus (Siberian Bullhead) · C. poecilopus poecilopus (Mottlefoot Sculpin) · C. poecilopus volki (Alpine Bullhead) · C. pollux (Japanese Fluvial Sculpin) · C. polyacanthocephalus (Great Sculpin) · C. princeps (Klamath Lake Sculpin) · C. paulus (Pygmy Sculpin) · C. quadricornis (Alaska Fourhorn Sculpin) · C. rhenanus (Rhine Sculpin) · C. rhothea (Torrent Sculpin) · C. rhotheus (Torrent Sculpin) · C. ricei (Rice´s Sculpin) · C. rondeleti (H?rault Sculpin) · C. scaber (Rough Flat Head) · C. scaturigo (Timavo Sculpin) · C. scorpius (Daddy Sculpin) · C. sibiricus (Siberian Miller's Thumb) · C. spinulosus (Turkestan Sculpin) · C. tenuis (Slender Sculpin) · C. thomsonii (Pallid Sculpin) · C. transsilvaniae (Arges Sculpin) · C. tricuspis (Arctic Staghorn Sculpin) · C. uncinatus (Arctic Hookear Sculpin) · C. verrucosus (Warty Sculpin) · C. villosus (Woods' Clingfish)

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Further Reading

• Billard, R. (1997). Les poissons d'eau douce des rivières de France. Identification, inventaire et répartition des 83 espèces. Lausanne: Delachaux and Niestlé, 192p.
• Eppe, R., Persat, H., Beaudou, D. and Berrebi, P. 1999. Genetic variability in sculpin (genus Cottus) from southern France, with reference to the taxonomic status of an endemic species, C. petiti. Heredity 83: 533–540.
• IUCN. 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 04 May 2006.
• Keith, P. and J. Allardi (coord.) (2001). Atlas des poissons d'eau douce de France. Patrimoines naturels, 47: 387 p. Paris: MNHN.
• Kottelat, M. (1997). European freshwater fishes. Biologia 52, Suppl. 5:1-271.
• Persat, H., Beaudou, D. and Freyhof, J. 1996. The sculpin of the Lez spring (South France), Cottus petiti (Bacescu and Bacescu-Mester, 1964), one of the most threatened fish species in Europe. In: A. Kirchhofer & D. Hefti (eds) Conservation of Endangered Freshwater Fish in Europe. pp: 321–328. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, Switzerland.

Notes

Contributors

• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Crivelli, A.J. 2006. Cottus petiti. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
• Crivelli, A.J. 2006. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• FishBase 2006.
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 04, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 04, 2008:

• FishBase: FishBase DiGIR Provider - Philippine Server
• Museum national d'histoire naturelle: Ichtyologie

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 124955
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-121264
• Fishbase Species ID: 49384
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 643941
• IUCN ID: 202337
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3411

Footnotes

1. Billard, R. (1997). Les poissons d'eau douce des rivières de France. Identification, inventaire et répartition des 83 espèces. Lausanne: Delachaux & Niestlé, 192p. [back]
2. Crivelli, A.J. 2006. Cottus petiti. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]

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