Cottus nozawae Snyder, 1911
Accepted species in Catalogue of Life’s 11 September 2026 base release. This preserves the source classification and available supporting data; it is not a completed species monograph.
Open encyclopedia reference
Cottus nozawae is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. It is found in southern Sakhalin Island in Russia, Hokkaido and northern Honshu in Japan and in the Korean Peninsula. It reaches a maximum length of 6.9 cm. This species was first formally described in 1911 by the American ichthyologist John Otterbein Snyder with its type locality given as the Ishikari River at Sapporo on Hokkaido. This species is sometimes placed in the subgenus Cephalocottus. The specific name honours zoologist Shunjiro Nozawa, Director of the Fisheries Bureau on Hokkaido.
Wikipedia contributors, Cottus nozawae; see linked history · CC BY-SA 4.0 . Plain-text lead excerpt, at most 180 words; no infobox or later sections Retrieved 2026-10-05T19:25:36.206207+00:00. This reference remains separate from the taxonomic record.
Identity & source status
- Scientific name
- Cottus nozawae Snyder, 1911
- Name authority
- Snyder, 1911
- Rank
- species
- Accepted status
- accepted
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Teleostei
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Cottidae
- Genus
- Cottus
- Extinction status
- Not supplied by this source
Source habitat flags: Marine: no · Freshwater: yes · Terrestrial: no. These do not form a complete habitat description.
Classification family tree
Nested taxonomic groups from the source. This is not a direct-ancestor chain, a dated evolutionary tree or a phylogenetic reconstruction.
- domainEukaryota (Chatton, 1925) Whittaker & Margulis, 1978
- kingdomAnimalia
- phylumChordata
- subphylumVertebrata
- infraphylumGnathostomata
- parvphylumOsteichthyes
- gigaclassActinopterygii
- superclassActinopteri
- classTeleostei
- orderPerciformes
- suborderCottoidei
- familyCottidae Bonaparte, 1831
- genusCottus Linnaeus, 1758
- speciesCottus nozawae Snyder, 1911
Close classified relatives
These entries share the source’s genus, Cottus. They are not necessarily the closest relatives established by molecular evidence.
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Cottus pollux Günther, 1873 | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| shorthead sculpinCottus confusus Bailey & Bond, 1963 | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cottus chattahoochee Neely, Williams & Mayden, 2007 | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cottus ohmiensis Watanabe, 1960 | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| coastrange sculpinCottus aleuticus Gilbert, 1896 | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| prickly sculpinCottus asper Richardson, 1836 | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cottus baileyi Robins, 1961 | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| mottled sculpinCottus bairdii Girard, 1850 | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cottus beldingii Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1891 | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cottus bendirei (Bean, 1881) | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cottus czerskii Berg, 1913 | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Cottus dzungaricus Kottelat, 2006 | CottidaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Source literature & publication evidence
References attached to this source record, including nomenclatural citations where supplied. This is a selected bibliography; abbreviated citations remain in the source’s form.
- Snyder, J. O. (1911). Descriptions of new genera and species of fishes from Japan and the Riu Kiu Islands. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, v. 40 (no. 1836): 525–549. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.1836.525 Source fields: Taxon.tsv dwc:namePublishedIn, Taxon.tsv dcterms:references
Origins, evidence & remaining research
Name authority and publication references document nomenclature where the source supplies it. They do not establish evolutionary origins or the earliest fossil occurrence.
Specimen-level evidence, morphology, ecological research, phylogenetic studies, a comprehensive bibliography and a located literary passage have not yet been compiled for this record. A suitable sourced image remains to be added.
Dataset citation & attribution
This exact taxon in ChecklistBank · Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11
Catalogue of Life 2026-09-11; dataset 316321; doi:10.48580/dgz5n. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ . Retrieved 5 October 2026.
Stable key: col:YYJX. Classification follows source parent identifiers. English common names may vary by region.