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Related FAQs:
Sculpins &
Relatives
Related Articles: Mail-Cheeked
Fishes (Scorpaeniforms), Lionfish
& Their Relatives, the
subfamily Choridactylinae (Inimicinae), Family
Platycephalidae, the Crocodilefishes or Flatheads, Subfamily
Synanceinae, the Stonefishes,
Subfamily
Tetraroginae, Sailback Scorpionfishes or Wasp Fishes, Family
Triglidae, the Searobins or Gurnards,
/A Diversity of
Aquatic Life
The
Hemitripterids... Another Obscure Family of Sculpins |
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Have small spines covering their bodies... Look like, closely allied with the
agonids (Poachers). Three genera, eleven species.
| Nautichthys oculofasciatus (Girard 1858), the Sailfin
Sculpin. Eastern Pacific; Alaska to California. Possibly Japan. To eight
inches in length. Usually pictured swimming with raised dorsal ahead. This
one at the SIO/Birch Aquarium in San Diego. |
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