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Japanese catadromous fourspine sculpin, Rheopresbe kazika (Jordan & Starks) (Pisces: Cottidae), transferred from the genus Cottus

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The scientific name Cottus kazika has been used for over a century as valid for the catadromous fourspine sculpin endemic to Japan. However, recent DNA sequence analyses have indicated a sister relationship between two catadromous species, so-called C. kazika and Trachidermus fasciatus with a great phylogenetic divergence, separated from a monophyletic freshwater spawning clade including the other Cottus species and Baikalian sculpins. Morphological, life-historical, ecological, and karyological characteristics have also suggested that the fourspine sculpin so-called C. kazika is neither a member of Cottus nor Trachidermus. Therefore, the fourspine sculpin is transferred to the genus Rheopresbe. The genus and R. kazika are re-described. The genus Rheopresbe is discriminated from related genus Trachidermus by not having bony ridges on both nape and cheeks and also by presence of entopterygoid, and from the genus Cottus by having teeth on palatines and four spines on preopercle ridges.

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We are grateful to A. J. Gharrett for his invaluable comments and correcting the English of our manuscript. Thanks are also offered to R. Fujii, N. Takeshita, M. Yabe, F. Yamazaki, the late K. Hamada and S. V. Shedko for their invaluable advices on the taxonomy and phylogeny of the cottid sculpins including the fourspine sculpin.

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    Akira Goto

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    Ryota Yokoyama

  3. USA Institute of Marine Biology, Kochi University, 194 Tosa, Kochi, 781-1164, Japan

    Izumi Kinoshita

  4. Department of Applied Aquabiology, National Fisheries University, 2-7-1 Nagata-honmachi, Yamaguchi, Shimonoseki, 759-6595, Japan

    Harumi Sakai

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Goto, A., Yokoyama, R., Kinoshita, I. et al. Japanese catadromous fourspine sculpin, Rheopresbe kazika (Jordan & Starks) (Pisces: Cottidae), transferred from the genus Cottus. Environ Biol Fish 103, 213–220 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-019-00921-3

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