Abyssocottus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
| Family: | Cottidae |
| Subfamily: | Abyssocottinae |
| Genus: | Abyssocottus L. S. Berg, 1906 |
| Type species | |
| Abyssocottus korotneffi Berg, 1906[1]
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Abyssocottus is a genus of ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. These sculpins are endemic to Lake Baikal in Russia.
Taxonomy[edit]
Abyssocottus was first proposed as a genus by the Russian ichthyologist Lev Berg with Abyssocottus korotneffi designated as its type species.[1] The 5th edition of Fishes of the World classified this genus within the subfamily Abyssocottinae.[2] However, other authorities have used phylogenetic studies which have found that Baikal sculpins that were classified in the subfamilies Comephorinae and Abyssocottinae by Fishes of the World radiated from an ancestor which was likely to be within the genus Cottus and that the classification of the Baikal sculpins in a different taxon from Cottus was paraphyletic.[3][4]
Species[edit]
There are currently three recognized species in this genus:[5]
- Abyssocottus elochini Taliev, 1955
- Abyssocottus gibbosus L. S. Berg, 1906
- Abyssocottus korotneffi L. S. Berg, 1906
References[edit]
- ^ a b Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Genera in the family Cottidae". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
- ^ J. S. Nelson; T. C. Grande; M. V. H. Wilson (2016). Fishes of the World (5th ed.). Wiley. pp. 467–495. ISBN 978-1-118-34233-6. Archived from the original on 2019-04-08. Retrieved 2023-03-05.
- ^ W. Leo Smith & Morgan S. Busby (2014). "Phylogeny and taxonomy of sculpins, sandfishes, and snailfishes (Perciformes: Cottoidei) with comments on the phylogenetic significance of their early-life-history specializations". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 79: 332–352. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2014.06.028. PMID 25014569.
- ^ Tytti Kontula; Sergei V. Kirilchik; and Risto Väinölä (2003). "Endemic diversification of the monophyletic cottoid fish species flock in Lake Baikal explored with mtDNA sequencing]". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 27 (1): 143–155. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00376-7.
- ^ Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2012). Species of Abyssocottus in FishBase. December 2012 version.
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