| Citation | Kottelat, M. and J. Freyhof, 2007, Handbook of European freshwater fishes.. Publications Kottelat, Cornol and Freyhof, Berlin. 646 pp. |
| Ref. | Kottelat, M. and J. Freyhof, 2007 |
| Page | 508 |
| Named Used as Valid | Cottus gobio |
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| Locality | |
| Distribution | Europe. |
| Quote | Europe: North Baltic in Scandinavia south to stream Maurine in southwesternmost of corner of Baltic basin (Germany); lower reaches of streams and rivers and along coast of Sweden, Finland, Russia southwest to Estonia.; Danube (except upper tributaries Save and Arges), Elbe, Ems, Weser and Rhône drainages;tributaries of upper Rhine downriver (northward) to about Mannheim; a few of uppermost tributaries of River Tevere, central Italy; Adriatic drainages from Potenza in Italy to Zrmanja in Croatia, except Timavo spring. Locally introduced in Scheldt drainage in Belgium. Records of sculpins from Neretva drainage in Bosnia-Herzegovina possibly belong to Cottus gobio. |