Prickly sculpin

The Prickly sculpin lives in the demersal, marine, depth range 0 - m environment.

The Prickly Sculpin is adaptable to environments ranging from fresh to saltwater, and from small cool stream to large warm rivers and lakes. More

Prickly Sculpins can grow as large as 30cm, but most adults average between 10-15 cms. They spawn in late winter and early spring with males guarding the eggs. More

Prickly sculpins and yellowfin gobies were seldom aggressive toward shimofuri gobies despite considerable size advantages. Shimofuri gobies were more aggressive toward other gobies than toward prickly sculpins. More

Oncorhynchus clarki, and prickly sculpin Cottus asper) on wild juvenile coho salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch in three shallow western Washington lakes, all located in different watersheds. More

Prickly sculpins occur in both flowing and standing waters. In rivers, adults are generally found in quiet water (in deep pools, under cutbanks, or associated with woody debris). More

Prickly Sculpin, New Pattern Database Submission Options V Guest_Ladykiller_* post Feb 14 2004, 02:45 PM Post #1 Guests A new addition to the fly pattern database More

The Prickly Sculpin is on the bottom. The two fish on top are Threespine Sticklebacks (the stickles are discernable along the top of the back from the front to the dorsal fin). More

prickly sculpin can be found in the warmer, lower reaches. Riffle sculpin are opportunistic bottom feeders, and will feed on isopods, amphipods, chironomid larvae, snails and a variety of aquatic insects. More

whereas 89% of prickly sculpin (n = 981) used habitat with water velocity ? 5 cm s -1. Sixty-five percent of coastrange sculpin were found at depths 7 m. More

Common names

charrasco ensillado in Spanish (español)
Prickly sculpin in English
saddleback sculpin in English
鞍背寡杜父魚 in Mandarin Chinese
鞍背寡杜父鱼 in Mandarin Chinese

Order : Scorpaeniformes
Family : Cottidae
Genus : Oligocottus
Species : Oligocottus rimensis
Authority : Greeley, 1899