sculpin


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any of numerous spiny large-headed usually scaleless scorpaenoid fishes with broad mouths

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We typically use natural colors--black, brown, or olive green when fishing on or near bottom, to imitate sculpins, crustaceans, hellgrammites, and other large insects.
Development of the lateral line and its use in feeding in larval mottled sculpin. Copeia, 1992: 485-492.
During these same surveys 1,138 brook trout, 1,312 rainbow trout, 1306 mottled sculpin and 357 individuals of nine other fish species were captured, indicating that kokanee salmon were a miniscule part of the fall Drew Creek fish assemblage (4 of 4117= <0.1%).
Additional native fishes observed moribund included at least 2000 northern tidewater gobies (dead on the exposed lagoon bottom, approximately 3-5/[m.sup.2] in many areas), staghorn Sculpin (4-5 dead on sand bar), striped mullet (Mugilcephalus) (1), and southern steelhead (7 dead in the flowing river channel from about 100 m above to 400 m below Harbor Boulevard Bridge).
Impact of dams on distribution, population structure, and hybridization of two species of California freshwater sculpin (Cottus).
[34.] Hayakawa Y, Munehara H (1998) Fertilization environment of the non-copulating marine sculpin, Hemilepidotus gilberti.
(4-6) Scorpionfish, such as the California scorpionfish or sculpin, are also docile and well-camouflaged, and cause envenomation injuries when caught in nets, hooked by commercial and recreational fishermen, or speared by divers.
Flowever, differences in assemblages between culture plots and reference areas were illustrated by significant vector loadings associated with flatfish, hermit crab, sculpin, sea star, snail, and true crab (Brachyura).
Cottus bairdii Girard, Mottled Sculpin. In Illinois, the Mottled Sculpin occurs along the shoreline of Lake Michigan, as well as in springs, spring-fed seeps, and clear, swift creeks in the northeastern portion of the state (Smith 1979).
One of Ballast Point's most popular brews, Sculpin IPA, has received more than 10 awards and Ballast Point Pale Ale recently won a gold medal in the 2014 Los Angeles International Beer Competition.
Ballast Point's Sculpin IPA has a pretty tweaked-out fish on the label that caught my eye, so I took a gamble.
The purple cat's paw mussel is known to use some darter and sculpin species as host fish.
In addition to northern leatherside, the assemblage of fish contained speckled dace (Rhinichthys osculus), longnose dace (Rhinichthys cataractae), redside shiner (Richardsonius balteatus), mottled sculpin (Cottus bairdi), mountain sucker (Catostomusplatyrhynchus), and Bonneville cutthroat trout (Onchorynchus clarki utah).
Breakwater Books has released a new edition of the classic A Wonderful Fine Day for a Sculpin Named Sam, written by Al Pittman and illustrated by Shawn O'Hagan.
A cold-water fishery must meet one of three criteria: a reproducing trout population; the presence of lake chub, longnose sucker or slimy sculpin; or be a part of the Atlantic salmon restoration effort, the fisheries biologist explained.