European bullhead

Bullhead
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Actinopterygii
Order:	Scorpaeniformes
Suborder:	Cottoidei
Superfamily:	Cottoidea
Family:	Cottidae
Genus:	Cottus
Species:	C. gobio
Binomial name
Cottus gobio Linnaeus, 1758

The bullhead^[1][2][3] (Cottus gobio) is a freshwater fish that is widely distributed in Europe, mainly in rivers. It is a member of the Cottidae family, a type of sculpin. It is also known as the miller's thumb, freshwater sculpin, common bullhead or European bullhead.^[2][3]

The bullhead is a small demersal fish that lives both in cold, clear, fast-slowing small streams and in middle-sized rivers. It also occurs on gravelly shores of cold lakes. Further, it thrives in diluted brackish water of the Northern Baltic Sea.^[2] Its food items include benthic insects and crustaceans.^[2] On reproduction, it attaches its eggs in clumps on undersides of large stones.^[2]

References

1. ^ Cottus gobio IUCN Red List 2009
2. ^ ^{a b c d e} Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2005). "Cottus gobio" in FishBase. 10 2005 version.
3. ^ ^{a b} "Cottus gobio". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=167255. Retrieved 24 January 2006. 

External links

• Tomlinson ML & Perrow MR (2003). Ecology of the Bullhead Cottus gobio. Conserving Natura 2000 Rivers Ecology Series No. 4. English Nature, Peterborough.

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