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Cottidae (Sculpins)
Etymology: Artediellus: Petrus (Peter) Artedi, (10 Mar.) 1705-35 (28 Sep.), a son of a clergyman from Anundsjö named Olaus Arctaedius, in the northern part of Sweden.In 1729 he changed his name from Arctaedius to Arctædi, a name still later simplified to Artedi (Ref. 45335).
Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range
Ecology
Marine; brackish; demersal; depth range 0 - 290 m (Ref. 58426). Polar; 80°N - 58°N, 39°E - 89°W (Ref. 117245)
Northeast Atlantic: southeastern part of Barents Sea, off Novaya Zemlya, eastwards from Kara Sea to northern part of Bering Sea to Hudson Strait.
Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 8.4 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 4698); common length : 6.0 cm male/unsexed; (Ref. 4698)
Dorsal spines (total): 7 - 9; Dorsal soft rays (total): 12 - 14; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 10 - 13. Caudal fin rounded. Head greyish-brown above, body lighter, with large, irregular dark spots forming cross-bands; stripes on all fins orange, pectoral tips white; oval black spot on hind part of spinous dorsal fin in males (Ref. 4698).
Found on sand-mud bottoms, mostly in brackish waters with bottom temperatures mostly near to or below 0°C and salinities of 10-15 ppt (Ref. 4698). Benthic (Ref. 58426). Feeds on small bottom invertebrates (Ref. 4698).
Life cycle and mating behavior
Maturities | Reproduction | Spawnings | Egg(s) | Fecundities | Larvae
Fedorov, V.V., 1986. Cottidae. p. 1243-1260. In P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 3. (Ref. 4698)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)
Threat to humans
Harmless
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Estimates based on models
Preferred temperature (Ref.
123201): -1.6 - 0.9, mean -1 °C (based on 2055 cells).
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82804): PD
50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Bayesian length-weight: a=0.00933 (0.00501 - 0.01740), b=3.24 (3.07 - 3.41), in cm total length, based on LWR estimates for this species & (Sub)family-body (Ref.
93245).
Trophic level (Ref.
69278): 3.4 ±0.38 se; based on food items.
Resilience (Ref.
120179): Low, minimum population doubling time 4.5 - 14 years (Fecundity < 100).
Fishing Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): Low vulnerability (10 of 100).
