The Cedar sculpin (''Cottus schitsuumsh'') is a small, large-headed species of freshwater
ray-finned fish belonging to the
family Cottidae, the typical sculpins. This species is found in the
Coeur d'Alene and
St. Joe rivers in
northern Idaho
The Idaho Panhandle—locally known as North Idaho—is a salient region of the U.S. state of Idaho encompassing the state's 10 northernmost counties: Benewah, Bonner, Boundary, Clearwater, Idaho, Kootenai, Latah, Lewis, Nez Perce, and Shosho ...
, and in a stretch of the
Clark Fork river
The Clark Fork, or the Clark Fork of the Columbia River, is a river in the U.S. states of Montana and Idaho, approximately long. The largest river by volume in Montana, it drains an extensive region of the Rocky Mountains in western Montana and ...
in western
Montana.
It is a common species of streams with cobble and gravel bottoms and cool to cold water.
References
Cottus (fish)
Freshwater fish of the United States
Fish described in 2014
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