Amur sculpin

Amur sculpin
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Scorpaeniformes
Family:	Cottidae
Genus:	Mesocottus; , 1907
Species:	M. haitej
Binomial name
	Mesocottus haitej; (Dybowski, 1869)
Synonyms
	Cottus haitej (Dybowski, 1869);

The Amur sculpin (Mesocottus haitej) is a species of freshwater sculpin native to eastern Asia where it is found in Russia, China and Mongolia - in the Amur River basin and some adjacent territories (the Tugur and the Uda Rivers flowing into the Sea of Okhotsk north from the Amur River, north-west of Sakhalin Island opposite the mouth of the Amur River). The Amur sculpin grows to a length of 20 centimetres (7.9 in) TL.^[1] This species is the only known member of its genus. According to the result of a pilot phylogenetic analysis, the freshwater Mesocottus is a sister lineage to the Cottus clade.^[2]

References[]

^ Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2012). "Mesocottus haitej" in FishBase. December 2012 version.
^ Shedko, SV; Miroshnichenko, IL; Nemkova, GA (Jul 31, 2013). "Complete mitochondrial genome of the poorly known Amur sculpin Mesocottus haitej (Cottoidei: Cottidae)". Mitochondrial DNA. 26: 147–148. doi:10.3109/19401736.2013.819496. PMID 23901915.

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[1] Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2012). "Mesocottus haitej" in FishBase. December 2012 version.

[2] Shedko, SV; Miroshnichenko, IL; Nemkova, GA (Jul 31, 2013). "Complete mitochondrial genome of the poorly known Amur sculpin Mesocottus haitej (Cottoidei: Cottidae)". Mitochondrial DNA. 26: 147–148. doi:10.3109/19401736.2013.819496. PMID 23901915.

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