Cottus Linnaeus [C.] 1758:264 Masc. Cottus gobio Linnaeus 1758. Type by subsequent designation. Type designated by Girard 1850:184 [ref. 1814]. On Official List (Opinion 77). •Valid as Cottus Linnaeus 1758 -- (Watanabe 1960:116 [ref. 11959], Neelov 1973:593 [ref. 7219], Sideleva 1982:27 [ref. 14469], Yabe in Masuda et al. 1984:326 [ref. 6441], Yabe 1985:111 [ref. 11522], Fedorov in Whitehead et al. 1986:1247 [ref. 13677], Lindberg & Krasyukova 1987:171 [ref. 15964], Jenkins & Burkhead 1994:628 [ref. 21581], Sideleva 1998:150 [ref. 23595], Mecklenburg et al. 2002:401 [ref. 25968], Parin et al. 2002:S72 [ref. 28300], Shedko & Shedko 2003:330 [ref. 27966], Bogutskaya & Naseka 2004:185 [ref. 28183], Kinziger et al. 2005:303 [ref. 28244], Freyhof et al. 2005:108 [ref. 28259], Kottelat 2006:59-60 [ref. 28831], Shedko & Miroshnichenko 2007:21 [ref. 29369], Kottelat & Freyhof 2007:503 [ref. 29996], Scharpf 2008:7 [ref. 30399], Sideleva 2009:209 [ref. 30173], Minckley & Marsh 2009:308 [ref. 31114], Sideleva & Goto 2009:599 [ref. 30591], Kinziger & Wood 2010:50 [ref. 30701], Adams et al. 2013:484 [ref. 32429], LeMoine et al. 2014:241 [ref. 33134], Goto et al. 2014:1 [ref. 33456], Parin et al. 2014:241 [ref. 33547], Sideleva et al. 2015:419 [ref. 33770], Pietsch & Orr 2015:40 [ref. 34694], Sideleva et al. 2015:32 [ref. 35276], Zhang et al. 2016:193 [ref. 34477], Dyldin & Orlov 2017:62 [ref. 35138], Sideleva 2017:827 [ref. 35715], Sideleva 2021:251 [ref. 38323], Young et al. 2022:326 [ref. 39356], Moyle & Campbell 2022:501 [ref. 39359], Sideleva et al. 2022:38 [ref. 39468], Sideleva & Shidkov 2024:473 [ref. 41080]). Current status: Valid as Cottus Linnaeus 1758. Cottidae.