Hamecon: Artediellus scaber Knipowitsch, 1907
Often one of the most abundant sculpins in bottom trawl catches in the Arctic Ocean
Size
- To 8.9 cm (3.5 in)
Color & Characteristics
- First preopercular spine hooked upwards
- Numerous fleshy cirri on the head and anterior portion of the lateral line
- No nasal spines, the top of the head and anterior portion of the back covered with fine tubercles
- The 1st dorsal fin of males with a black blotch posteriorly
Habitat
- Arctic faunal region
- Benthic, at depths of 10-290 m (33-951 ft), typically < 55 m,
- Found on mud, sand, gravel, and rock substrates
- Burrows into muddy-sandy substrate
Feeding
- Feeds primarily on polychaetes, gammarid amphipods, and mysids; also cumaceans, euphausiids, hyperiid amphipods, isopods
Life cycle
- Spawn in late autumn. Number of eggs 50–100
- Mature by 3–4 years of age or >5.6 cm
- Attain at least 7 years of age
Page Authors: Kitty and Tony Mecklenburg
Created: Feb 12, 2009
