Cottus volki is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. This species is endemic to Russia where it is found along the continental coasts of the Sea of Japan but not on the coasts of Peter the Great Bay.[1] It reaches a maximum length of 13 cm (5.1 in).[2] It was previously considered a subspecies of the alpine bullhead. (Cottus poecilopus) and this species was first formally described in 1933 by the Russian ichthyologist Anatoly Yakovlevich Taranetz as Cottus poecilopus volki with its type locality given as the Suchan River to Takema River on western coast of the Sea of Japan in Primorye.[3] Taranetz did not identify the person honoured in the specific name but it is thought most likely to be his friend Alexander Maksimovich Volk, like Taranetz, Volk was killed in action during World War 2.[4]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Perciformes |
| Family: | Cottidae |
| Genus: | Cottus |
| Species: | C. volki
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| Cottus volki Taranetz, 1933
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References
edit- ^ a b Bogutskaya, N. (2020). "Cottus volki". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T159631726A159632184. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T159631726A159632184.en. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
- ^ a b Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Cottus volki". FishBase. August 2022 version.
- ^ Eschmeyer, William N.; Fricke, Ron & van der Laan, Richard (eds.). "Species in the genus Cottus". Catalog of Fishes. California Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 22 January 2023.
- ^ Christopher Scharpf & Kenneth J. Lazara, eds. (22 October 2022). "Order Perciformes: Suborder Cottoidea: Infraorder Cottales: Family Cottidae (Sculpins)". The ETYFish Project Fish Name Etymology Database. Christopher Scharpf and Kenneth J. Lazara. Retrieved 21 January 2023.