Image: Cottus cognatus

Description: Slimy Sculpin (Cottus cognatus)
Title: Cottus cognatus
Credit: State of New York. A biological survey of the Oswego River system. Supplemental to Seventeenth annual report, 1927 - plate 7, after page 94
Author: Painting by Ellen Edmonson
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