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Cottidae
Banded sculpin
Cottus carolinae
Cottid Fish of the Indian Ocean
- Temperate
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Freshwater fish
- North America
- West Asia
- Elongated
- Medium
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Regional distribution
Freshwater fish
Elongated
MediumBanded sculpin is known around North America as a freshwater fish; It occurs in freshwater habitats, and the largest recorded length is 18 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Perches and Allies
- Family
- Cottidae
- Genus
- Cottus
- Maximum length
- 18 cm
- Water
- Freshwater
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- North America: upland streams in Mississippi River basin from New River drainage in West Virginia and Virginia, across central Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois to Ozark Mountain drainages in Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma in the USA; south to Mobile drainage in Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama, USA.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
