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.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Perches and Allies
Family: Cottidae
Genus: Myoxocephalus
Maximum length: 60 cm
Body shape: fusiform
Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: south-eastern coasts of Greenland, Jan Mayen Island, Iceland to British Isles and southward to Bay of Biscay, also North Sea, Baltic Sea, Spitsbergen and southern part of Barents Sea (including White Sea). Western Atlantic: James Bay in Canada to New York, USA (Ref. 7251 ). Arctic Ocean.

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