translate English to French: Peden (2000) used allozyme variation to demonstrate that the Flathead River population of sculpins was actually an unrecognized Canadian taxon, which he provisionally named C. bairdii punctulatus, distinct from those of the Columbia system, provisionally named C. b. hubbsi (Bailey and Dimick 1949; McAllister and Lindsey 1961; McPhail 2001) and is in agreement with the morphological results reported by Troffe (1999).
Selon Neely (2002; Neely, comm. pers., 2005), la population du haut Missouri, et donc très probablement les populations des rivières St. Mary, Milk et Flathead, qui ont été provisoirement décrites comme Cottus bairdii punctulatus (Peden, 2000), constituent également un nouveau taxon. Il ne s’agit toutefois pas du Cottus punctulatus, lequel est confiné au fleuve Colorado, aux États-Unis (Nelson, comm. pers., 2005).