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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 | | | | |
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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