Family

Cottidae

40 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › › Scorpaeniformes › Cottidae

European Bullhead

Cottus gobio Linnaeus, 1758

Cottus gobio Linnaeus, 1758, the European bullhead, is a small European freshwater sculpin often split into multiple distinct species.

Mottled Sculpin

Cottus bairdii Girard, 1850

Cottus bairdii, the mottled sculpin, is a widely distributed North American freshwater sculpin that relies on clean, unpolluted clear water.

Prickly Sculpin

Cottus asper Richardson, 1836

Cottus asper, the prickly sculpin, is a small North American cold-water fish used as food and bait.

Coastrange Sculpin

Cottus aleuticus Gilbert, 1896

Cottus aleuticus, the Coastrange sculpin, is a small fish native to the Pacific coast of North America with distinct identifying traits.

Paiute Sculpin

Cottus beldingii Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1891

Paiute sculpin (Cottus beldingii) is a small freshwater fish native to cold streams of the Western United States.

Blue Ridge Sculpin

Cottus caeruleomentum Kinziger, Raesly & Neely, 2000

Cottus caeruleomentum, the Blue Ridge sculpin, is a small Cottidae fish native to Atlantic-draining rivers of the eastern US.

Banded Sculpin

Cottus carolinae (Gill, 1861)

Cottus carolinae, the banded sculpin, is a freshwater benthic fish native to the United States that faces habitat threats but is not endangered.

Slimy Sculpin

Cottus cognatus Richardson, 1836

Cottus cognatus (slimy sculpin) is a small scaleless freshwater fish native to northern North America and eastern Siberia.

Potomac Sculpin

Cottus girardi Robins, 1961

Cottus girardi, the Potomac sculpin, is a small freshwater fish found in mid-Atlantic U.S. drainages with sex-specific habitat preferences.

Chabot Bullhead

Cottus perifretum Freyhof, Kottelat & Nolte, 2005

Cottus perifretum is a freshwater sculpin fish native to western Europe and invasive in parts of the region.

Torrent Sculpin

Cottus rhotheus (Smith, 1882)

Cottus rhotheus, the torrent sculpin, is a small cold-adapted bottom-dwelling fish found in the Pacific Northwest of North America.

Knobfin Sculpin

Cottus immaculatus Kinziger & Wood, 2010

Cottus immaculatus, the knobfin sculpin, is a small US cottidae fish found in the Ozark Highlands with an introduced Connecticut population.

Pacific Staghorn Sculpin

Leptocottus armatus Girard, 1854

Leptocottus armatus, the Pacific staghorn sculpin, is a slender fish found along North America’s Pacific west coast in nearshore and estuarine habitats.

Red Irish Lord

Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus (Tilesius, 1811)

The red Irish lord (Hemilepidotus hemilepidotus) is a small bottom-dwelling North Pacific sculpin that can change its body color.

Longhorn Sculpin

Myoxocephalus octodecemspinosus (Mitchill, 1814)

Myoxocephalus octodecemspinosus, the longhorn sculpin, is a northwest Atlantic demersal sculpin with distinct morphological traits and benthic feeding ecology.