''Asprocottus minor'' is a species of

ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fish or actinopterygians, is a class of bony fish that comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. They are so called because of their lightly built fins made of webbings of sk ...

belonging to the

family Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...

Cottidae The Cottidae are a family of fish in the superfamily Cottoidea, the sculpins. It is the largest sculpin family, with about 275 species in 70 genera.Kane, E. A. and T. E. Higham. (2012)Life in the flow lane: differences in pectoral fin morphology ...

, the typical sculpins. It was described by Valentina Grigorievna Sideleva in 2001, originally as a subspecies of '' Asprocottus korjakovi''.Sideleva, V. G., 2001 ef. 26181''List of fishes from Lake Baikal with descriptions of new taxa of cottoid fishes.'' In: New Contributions to Freshwater Fish Research. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute Academy of Sciences USSR No. 287: 45-79. It is a

freshwater Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. The term excludes seawater and brackish water, but it does include non-salty mi ...

fish which is endemic to

Lake Baikal Lake Baikal is a rift lake and the deepest lake in the world. It is situated in southern Siberia, Russia between the Federal subjects of Russia, federal subjects of Irkutsk Oblast, Irkutsk Oblasts of Russia, Oblast to the northwest and the Repu ...

, Russia.

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minor Taxa named by Valentina Grigorievna Sideleva Fish described in 2001 Fish of Lake Baikal {{Cottidae-stub