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The slender sculpin (''Cottus tenuis'') is a species of freshwater
ray-finned fish Actinopterygii (; ), members of which are known as ray-finned fishes, is a class of bony fish. They comprise over 50% of living vertebrate species. The ray-finned fishes are so called because their fins are webs of skin supported by bony or h ...
belonging to the
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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 is
endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found els ...
to the
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, occurring only in the upper
Klamath Lake Upper Klamath Lake (sometimes called Klamath Lake) (Klamath: ?ews, "lake" ) is a large, shallow freshwater lake east of the Cascade Range in south-central Oregon in the United States. The largest body of fresh water by surface area in Oregon, it ...
river drainage in Oregon. It is found along lake shores over mud, sand and gravel, and in the riffles, runs and pools of streams and rivers. It reaches a maximum length of 9 cm.


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Freshwater fish of the United States Cottus (fish) Fish described in 1898 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Taxa named by Barton Warren Evermann Taxa named by Seth Eugene Meek {{Cottidae-stub