Dasycottus setiger
Spinyhead Sculpin
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Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes)
Scorpaeniformes (Lionfish, Stonefish and others)
Psychrolutidae (Fathead Sculpins)
Dasycottus
Dasycottus setiger (Spinyhead Sculpin)
Description
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Characters
Body shape: fusiform / normal. Caudal slightly rounded. Pectorals with large base carried forward. Pelvic fins small.
Distribution
North Pacific: Sea of Japan off Honshu, Japan to Navarin Canyon in the Bering Sea, west to Attu Island in the Aleutian chain and southeast to Washington, USA.
Habitat Associations
Marine. demersal. depth range 15-850 m.
Biology
Found on soft bottoms (Ref. 2850).
Max length: 73.0 cm TL; max weight: 1550 g; max age: 11 years.
IUCN Red List Status: N.E. (N.E.). Resilience: Low (tmax=11).
Commercial or Environmental Importance
Fisheries: subsistence fisheries; gamefish.
References
Eschmeyer, W.N., E.S. Herald and H. Hammann (1983) A field guide to Pacific coast fishes of North America. Boston (MA, USA): Houghton Mifflin Company. xii+336 p.
Allen, M.J. and G.B. Smith (1988) Atlas and zoogeography of common fishes in the Bering Sea and northeastern Pacific. NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS 66, 151 p.
Hart, J.L. (1973) Pacific fishes of Canada. Bull. Fish. Res. Board Can. 180:740 p.
Jewett, S.C., R.H. Day and H.M. Feder (1989) Feeding biology of the blackfin sculpin (Malacocottus kincaidi Gilbert and Thompson, 1905) and the spinyhead sculpin (Dasycottus setiger Bean 1890) in the northeastern Gulf of Alaska. Pac. Sci. 43(2):144-151.
Pauly, D. and V. Christensen (1995) Primary production required to sustain global fisheries. Nature 374(6519):255-257.
Fedorov, V.V., I.A. Chereshnev, M.V. Nazarkin, A.V. Shestakov and V.V. Volobuev (2003) Catalog of marine and freswater fishes of the northern part of the Sea of Okhotsk. Vladivostok: Dalnauka, 2003. 204 p.
Orlov, A. and C. Binohlan (2009) Length-weight relationships of deep-sea fishes from the western Bering Sea. J. Appl. Ichthyol. 25:223-227.
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