Locality: 月光川

Locality: Gakko River

Prefecture: Yamagata Prefecture

Country/region: Japan

Habitat type: upper river

Cottus kazika C_kazika_Yamagata_Gakko | GEDIMAP-P285

Ckazika (12S-rRNA, CR) [1]

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Kanno K, Onikura N, Kurita Y, Koyama A, Nakajima J (2018) Morphological, distributional, and genetic characteristics of Cottus pollux in the Kyushu Island, Japan: indication of fluvial and amphidromous life histories within a single lineage. Ichthyological Research 65:462-470