Cottidae

sculpin

Myoxocephalus scorpius

Sixty Centimeters Cottid Fish of the Atlantic Ocean

• Polar
• Circumpolar Arctic
• Regional distribution
• Arctic Ocean
• Atlantic Ocean
• Europe
• North America
• Polar regions
• Fusiform
• Large
• Cold-water fish

Myoxocephalus scorpius, typically known as the shorthorn sculpin or bull-rout, is a species of fish in the family Cottidae. It is a demersal species of the Northern Atlantic and adjacent subarctic and Arctic seas. The species has many English names that are used less frequently or in small parts of its range, including Arctic sculpin, daddy sculpin, European sculpin, father-lasher, goat sculpin, Greenland sculpin, guffy, horny whore, pig-fish, scully, scummy, short-spined sea scorpion and warty sculpin.