| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family |
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| ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | ACTINOPTERYGII | SCORPAENIFORMES | COTTIDAE |
| Scientific Name: | Cottus paulus | |||
| Species Authority: | Williams, 2000 | |||
Common Name/s:
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| Synonym/s: |
Cottus pygmaeus Williams, 1968
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| Taxonomic Notes: | This species was formerly known as Cottus pygmaeus (and appeared in IUCN Red Lists up to 2006 under that name), but that specific name is preoccupied in the genus Cottus, so Williams (2000) proposed the substitute name C. paulus. | |||
| Red List Category & Criteria: | Critically Endangered B1+2a ver 2.3 | ||||||||||||
| Year Published: | 1996 | ||||||||||||
| Annotations: |
Needs updating
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| Assessor/s: | Gimenez Dixon, M. | ||||||||||||
| History: |
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| Range Description: | Known only from Coldwater Spring (Coosa River system), Calhoun County in Alabama. |
| Countries: |
Native:
United States (Alabama)
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| Habitat and Ecology: | A spring species. |
| Systems: | Freshwater |
| Citation: | Gimenez Dixon, M. 1996. Cottus paulus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 25 May 2012. |
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