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Related FAQs: Sculpins &
Relatives
Related Articles: Mail-Cheeked Fishes (Scorpaeniforms),
Lionfish & Their Relatives,
the subfamily
Choridactylinae (Inimicinae), Family Platycephalidae, the Crocodilefishes
or Flatheads, Subfamily Synanceinae, the
Stonefishes, Subfamily Tetraroginae, Sailback Scorpionfishes
or Wasp Fishes, Family Triglidae, the
Searobins or Gurnards,
/A Diversity of Aquatic Life
The
Hemitripterids... Another Obscure Family of
Sculpins
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Scorpionfishes:
Lionfishes & Much More for Marine Aquariums
Diversity, Selection & Care
New eBook on Amazon: Available
here
New Print Book on Create Space: Available
here
by Robert (Bob) Fenner |
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Have small spines covering their bodies... Look like, closely allied
with the Agonids (Poachers). Three genera, eleven species.
| Nautichthys oculofasciatus (Girard 1858),
the Sailfin Sculpin. Eastern Pacific; Alaska to California.
Possibly Japan. To eight inches in length. Usually pictured
swimming with raised dorsal ahead. This one at the SIO/Birch
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Scorpionfishes:
Lionfishes & Much More for Marine Aquariums
Diversity, Selection & Care
New eBook on Amazon: Available
here
New Print Book on Create Space: Available
here
by Robert (Bob) Fenner |
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