Cottidae

thorny sculpin

Icelus spiniger

Twenty Four Centimeters Cottid Fish of the Pacific Ocean

• Temperate
• Northern Hemisphere
• Regional distribution
• Marine fish
• Pacific Ocean
• North America
• Fusiform
• Medium
• Temperate fish

Icelus spiniger, the thorny sculpin, is a marine fish in the family Cottidae. It can be found throughout the North Pacific, the eastern Sea of Okhotsk to Cape Navarin in the Bering Sea to Agattu Island in the Aleutian island chain and Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.