Artediellus atlanticus
Atlantic Hookear Sculpin
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G5
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Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes)
Scorpaeniformes (Lionfish, Stonefish and others)
Cottidae (Sculpins)
Artediellus
Artediellus atlanticus (Atlantic Hookear Sculpin)
Description
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Characters
Body shape: elongated. Gill membranes joined to each other under the throat, lateral line scales without bony knobs. Upper spine of the front gill cover curved upwards (Ref. 35388).
Distribution
Northwest Atlantic: Greenland and Canada to Cape Cod in Massachusetts, USA. Northeast Atlantic: Greenland, Iceland, the Faroes, Novaya Zemlya (but not White Sea) in Russia, southern part of Barents Sea, Scandinavian coast to Skagerrak, the Orkneys in Scotland, and Ireland.
Habitat Associations
Marine. demersal. depth range 35-900 m.
Biology
Occur on sandy or muddy bottoms (Ref. 4698). Benthic (Ref. 58426). Feed on polychaetes, small mollusks and very rarely small crustaceans (Ref. 4698). Lives at temperatures of -1.7-4°C. Females lay 50-350 eggs with a diameter of 4mm in late summer (Ref. 35388).
Max length: 15.0 cm SL; common length: 10.5 cm TL.
Reproductive mode: dioecism; fertilization: external; nonguarders (Open water/substratum egg scatterers).
IUCN Red List Status: N.E. (N.E.). Resilience: Low (Fec=50).
References
Fedorov, V.V. (1986) Cottidae. p. 1243-1260. In P.J.P. Whitehead, M.-L. Bauchot, J.-C. Hureau, J. Nielsen and E. Tortonese (eds.) Fishes of the North-eastern Atlantic and the Mediterranean. UNESCO, Paris. Vol. 3.
Muus, B.J. and J.G. Nielsen (1999) Sea fish. Scandinavian Fishing Year Book, Hedehusene, Denmark. 340 p.
Pecuchet, L., M. Lindegren, M. Hidalgo, M. Delgado, A. Esteban, H.O. Fock, L.G. De Sola, A. Punzon, J. Solmundsson and M.R. Payne (2017) From traits to life-history strategies: Deconstructing fish community composition across European seas. Global Ecol. Biogeogr. 2017:1-11. DOI: 10.1111/geb.12587
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