#2121 · 🐟 fish
Chabot Bullhead
🇳🇱 Rivierdonderpad ·Cottus perifretum
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Calum McLennan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Calum McLennan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Calum McLennan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Piet Spaans · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. © Nicola Crockford · CC BY 4.0
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- 7. © Max Carter · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Max Carter · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Nicola Crockford · CC BY 4.0
- 10. © Nicola Crockford · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
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base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 15 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #50 most seen of the fish in NL.
- 786 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Maurice Kottelat in 2005 (21 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Chabot Bullhead
- Nederlands
- Rivierdonderpad
- scientific name
- Cottus perifretum
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Perciformes
- family
- Cottidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 15
- sightings in Europe
- 710
- sightings worldwide
- 786
- GBIF records in NL
- 6,607
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 2005 by Maurice Kottelat
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Cottidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 98580, Wikidata Q1788923, GBIF 2334088, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.