Columbia sculpin
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| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = {{Cite journal | author = NatureServe | title = Cottus hubbsi | journal = The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species |page = e.T202662A15364429 | publisher = IUCN | date = 2013 | url = http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/202662/0 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T202662A15364429.en | access-date = 13 January 2018| doi-access = free }}
| taxon = Cottus hubbsi
| authority = R. M. Bailey and Dimick, 1949
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The Columbia sculpin (Cottus hubbsi) is a species of fish in the family Cottidae. It is found in the United States and Canada, inhabiting the Columbia River drainage and Harney Basin in Oregon, British Columbia, Idaho, Washington, and Nevada. It reaches a maximum length of 11.2 cm.{{FishBase |genus= Cottus|species= hubbsi| month = February | year = 2014}} It prefers rocky riffles of headwaters and creeks.
Taxonomy
The Columbia sculpin was first formally described in 1949 by Reeve Maclaren Bailey and Mary Fitzgibbon Dimick with the type locality given as the Entiat River in Chelan County, Washington.{{Cof genus|genus=Cottus|access-date=18 January 2023}} This species is classified by some authorities in the subgenus Uranidea. The specific name honors the American ichthyologist Carl Leavitt Hubbs who first recognized this taxon as new.{{cite web | url = https://etyfish.org/perciformes20/ | title = Order Perciformes: Suborder Cottoidea: Infraorder Cottales: Family Cottidae (Sculpins) | work = The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database | editor1= Christopher Scharpf | editor2 = Kenneth J. Lazara | name-list-style = amp |date = 22 October 2022 | access-date = 18 January 2023 | publisher = Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara}}
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Category:Fish described in 1949
Category:Taxa named by Reeve Maclaren Bailey
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