Russia Endemic Freshwater Fish Checklist

Russia

Checklist of Endemic Freshwater Fish Species

This list of freshwater fish species found exclusively in Russia is based on the taxonomy used in FishBase 2004 (2004). For further details on possible inaccuracies in the list see Sources & Caveats.

FishBase 2004: a global information system on fishes. DVD. WorldFish Center - Philippine Office, Los Banos, Philippines. Published in May 2004.

The current version of this electronic database is accessible here.

OC = a FishBase occurrence record suggests a specimen from another country outside normal stated range ( these vary widely in reliability from obvious misidentifications to being almost certainly correct)

Abyssocottus elochini (Abyssocottidae)

Abyssocottus gibbosus (Abyssocottidae)

Abyssocottus korotneffi (Abyssocottidae)

Asprocottus abyssalis (Abyssocottidae)

Asprocottus herzensteini (Abyssocottidae) Herzenstein's Rough Sculpin

Asprocottus intermedius (Abyssocottidae)

Asprocottus korjakovi (Abyssocottidae)

Asprocottus parmiferus (Abyssocottidae)

Asprocottus platycephalus (Abyssocottidae)

Asprocottus pulcher (Abyssocottidae)

Cottinella boulengeri (Abyssocottidae) Short-headed Sculpin

Limnocottus bergianus (Abyssocottidae)

Limnocottus eurystomus (Abyssocottidae)

Limnocottus godlewskii (Abyssocottidae)

Limnocottus griseus (Abyssocottidae)

Limnocottus megalops (Abyssocottidae)

Limnocottus pallidus (Abyssocottidae)

Neocottus thermalis (Abyssocottidae)

Neocottus werestschagini (Abyssocottidae)

Procottus gotoi (Abyssocottidae)

Procottus gurwicii (Abyssocottidae) Dwarf Sculpin

Procottus jeittelesii (Abyssocottidae) Red Baikal Sculpin

Procottus major (Abyssocottidae)

Pelteobagrus wittenburgii (Bagridae)

Misgurnus nikolskyi (Cobitidae)

Comephorus baikalensis (Comephoridae) Big Baikal Oilfish

Comephorus dybowskii (Comephoridae) Little Baikal Oilfish

Cottus kaganowskii (Cottidae)

Cottus kesslerii (Cottidae) Sand Sculpin

Cottus sibiricus (Cottidae) Siberian Sculpin

Mesocottus haitej (Cottidae)

Batrachocottus baicalensis (Cottocomephoridae) Large-headed Baikal Sculpin

Batrachocottus multiradiatus (Cottocomephoridae)

Batrachocottus nikolskii (Cottocomephoridae) Fat Sculpin

Batrachocottus talievi (Cottocomephoridae)

Cottocomephorus grewingkii (Cottocomephoridae) Yellow-fin Baikal Sculpin

Cottocomephorus inermis (Cottocomephoridae) Longfin Baikal Sculpin

Paracottus knerii (Cottocomephoridae) Stone Sculpin

Chondrostoma kubanicum (Cyprinidae) Kuban's Nase

Leuciscus aphipsi (Cyprinidae)

Neogobius bogdanowi (Gobiidae)

Neogobius caspius OC (Gobiidae)

Hypomesus chishimaensis (Osmeridae)

Coregonus muksun (Salmonidae) Muksun

Coregonus subautumnalis (Salmonidae)

Coregonus tugun (Salmonidae) Tugun

Salmo ezenami (Salmonidae) Kezenoi-am Trout

Salvelinus albus (Salmonidae) White Char

Salvelinus andriashevi (Salmonidae) Chukot Char

Salvelinus boganidae (Salmonidae) Boganida Char

Salvelinus czerskii (Salmonidae) Cherskii's Char

Salvelinus drjagini (Salmonidae) Dryanin's Char

Salvelinus elgyticus (Salmonidae) Small-mouth Char

Salvelinus jacuticus (Salmonidae) Yakutian Char

Salvelinus neiva (Salmonidae) Neiva

Salvelinus tolmachoffi (Salmonidae) Esei Lake Char

Salvethymus svetovidovi (Salmonidae) Long-finned Char

Additional endemic freshwater fish species that were not included in FishBase 2004 are given below. This list is primarily based on information from the 13 March 2009 version of the Catalog of Fishes database (current version here) and includes species described through 2008. In addition to the 57 endemic freshwater fish species listed above, these additional 29 species total 86 species of freshwater fishes known solely from Russia.

Asprocottus minor (Abyssocottidae) 2001

Lefua pleskei (Balitoridae)

Triplophysa chandagaitensis (Balitoridae) 2002

Alosa volgensis (Clupeidae)

Sabanejewia kubanica (Cobitidae)

Cottocomephorus alexandrae (Cottocomephoridae)

Gobio kubanicus (Cyprinidae) 2004

Gobio volgensis (Cyprinidae) 2008

Romanogobio parvus (Cyprinidae) 2004

Pungitius bussei (Gasterosteidae)

Benthophilus durrelli (Gobiidae) 2004

Coregonus lutokka (Salmonidae) 2005