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Bighead sculpin

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35: 206:, at depths of 5 to 70 m (16–230 ft), but can occur as deep as 120 m (390 ft). Its colour varies from grayish to brownish or greenish depending on the bottom type. It can reach up to 22 cm (8.7 in) in length, but most are 13–16 cm (5.1–6.3 in). It feeds on a wide range of smaller animals such as young fish, insect larvae, 317: 468: 507: 442: 481: 342: 257: 416: 520: 553: 312: 486: 34: 558: 390: 339:
Endemic diversification of the monophyletic cottoid fish species flock in Lake Baikal explored with mtDNA sequencing
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The bighead sculpin is variously considered to belong either to the family
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Tytti Kontula, Sergei V. Kirilchik, Risto Väinölä (2003)
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Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Actinopterygii
Scorpaeniformes
Cottidae
Batrachocottus
Binomial name
Dybowski
Synonyms
sculpin
endemic
Lake Baikal
Siberia
Russia
sponges
amphipods
molluscs
oligochaetes
Cottocomephoridae
Cottidae
Abyssocottidae


Froese, Rainer
"Batrachocottus baicalensis"
FishBase

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