Asprocottus korjakovi

Asprocottus korjakovi is one of the 30 or so endemic sculpin fish species endemic to the ancient lake Baikal in Siberia. It is a member of the deepwater sculpin family Abyssocottidae,[1] and was described scientifically by Valentina Sideleva in 2001.[2]

Asprocottus korjakovi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Abyssocottidae
Genus: Asprocottus
Species:
A. korjakovi
Binomial name
Asprocottus korjakovi
Sideleva, 2001

References

  1. Asprocottus korjakovi at www.fishbase.org.
  2. Sideleva, V. G., 2001 List of fishes from Lake Baikal with descriptions of new taxa of cottoid fishes. In: New Contributions to Freshwater Fish Research. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute Russian Academy of Sciences No. 287: 45-79.


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