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Sculpin
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
common name for a member of the large family Cottidae, bizarre fishes with large, spiny or armored heads and short, tapering bodies, found in both marine and freshwater habitats.
Sculpin
A Sculpin is a fish that belongs to the Order Scorpaeniformes, Suborder Cottoidei and Superfamily Cottoidea that contains 11 families.
Sculpins
Life History & Michigan History
Another bottom-dwelling species is the sculpin. Four species are found in the Great Lakes. Sculpins have no scales. Their main adaptation to living in streams is their shape.
Slimy Sculpin Behaviour
No observations regarding Slimy Sculpin behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Slimy Sculpins ...
Butterfly Fish, California Moray Eel, Catalina Goby, Clown Triggerfish, Coral Grouper, Cowfish, Cuban Hogfish, Dog Face Puffer, Emperor Angel, French Angel, French Grunt, Garden Eel, Garibaldi, Green Chromis, Green Puff Fish, Grunt Sculpin, ...
Native predators of tidewater gobies include small steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss), prickly sculpin (Cottus asper), and staghorn sculpin (Leptocottus armatus) (Swift et al. 1989, USFWS 2005).
Belugas feast on a variety of prey including smelt, flatfish, flounder, sculpins, salmon, and cod. They also feed on invertebrates such as crab, shrimp, clams, worms, octopus, squid, and other bottom dwelling creatures.
Easy to Please: Halibut feed on almost any animal they can fit in their mouths: animals found in their stomachs include sand lance, octopus, crab, salmon, hermit crabs, lamprey, sculpin, cod, pollack and flounder.
Forages in water; eats fishes (including sculpins and trout up to 2.4 cm in length), tadpoles (though not especially effective as a predator of bullfrog larvae; Kupferberg, 1994, Herpetol. Rev. 25:95-97), frogs (e.g., RANA BOYLII), salamanders, ...
Harp seals have a varied diet of fish such as capelin, polar and Arctic cod, herring, sculpin, Greenland halibut, redfish, and plaice. They also consume crustaceans such as amphipods, euphausids (krill), and decapods (shrimps and prawns).
They have a wide and varied diet, and are known to be opportunistic predators on many species of fish, including salmon, pacific cod, pollock, hake, sculpins, squid and octopus.
SUBORDER COTTOIDEI
Includes horsehead sculpins, sculpins, Baikal oilfishes, sailfin sculpins, fatheads, poachers, starsnouts, rockheads, alligator fishes
PERCIFORMES ...
Minnows, sunfish, trout, catfish, sculpins and perch, and other fish are caught by direct pursuit and taken to dry land to consume.
Food consists of small or medium sized fish, including cod, herring, sprat, sculpins, and occasionally crustaceans, mollusks, frogs, fish spawn and insects. Prey is usually caught underwater and is usually swallowed before surfacing.
Notes ...
Sea lions are carnivores. In the wild, they feed on fish such as pollock, flounder, Pacific cod, salmon, rockfish and sculpins, and invertebrates such as octopus and squid. In the zoo they eat herring, capelin, smelt, mackerel, squid and trout.
Because otters prey most easily on fish that are slow and lethargic, much of the diet consists of "rough" fish like carp, suckers, catfish, and sculpins. Zoo diet: fish or horse meat with vegetables.
In the Gulf of Maine, they feed mostly on red rock gunnels and bottom feeding fish such as sculpin. Marine worms, insects, and mollusks, as well as bits of plant material, are eaten as well.
Cottidae, Sculpins
Sciaenidae, Drums
Percidae, Perches
Moronidae, Striped Basses
Centrarchidae, Sunfishes ...
Appalacian elktoe (Alasmidonta raveneliana)
Oyster mussel (Epioblasma capsaeformis)
Noel's amphipod (Gammarus desperatus)
Shiny Pigtoe (Fusconaia cor)
Pygmy sculpin (Cottus paulus)
Shasta crayfish (Pacifastacus fortis) ...
 See also: Salmon, Trout, Perch, Catfish, Herring
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