Animalia > Chordata > Scorpaeniformes > Cottidae > Myoxocephalus > Myoxocephalus octodecemspinosus

Myoxocephalus octodecemspinosus (Sea raven; Scumpy; Scummy; Sculpin; Scully; Scopy; Scopin; Scolping; Rubbish; Plug eye; Pig-fish; Muddler; Long-spined sculpin; Longhorn sculpin; Guffy; Gray sculpin; Goat sculpin; Cabezon; Bullhead; 18-spined sculpin)

Synonyms: Acanthocottus octodecemspinosus; Cottus octodecemspinosus; Myoxocephalus octodecemspinosis; Myoxocephalus octodecimspinosus
Language: Danish; French; Haida; Mandarin Chinese; Tsimshian

Wikipedia Abstract

Myoxocephalus octodecemspinosus or the longhorn sculpin is a Northwest Atlantic species of sculpin in the fish family Cottidae. It is a predatory and scavenging fish that can feed on the remains of other organisms.
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Attributes

Maximum Longevity [1]  11 years

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Forillon National Park II 61010 Quebec, Canada  
Gateway National Recreation Area V 1807 New Jersey, United States
Kouchibouguac National Park II 59161 New Brunswick, Canada

Prey / Diet

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Predators

Consumers

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
3Food of Northwest Atlantic Fishes and Two Common Species of Squid, Ray E. Bowman, Charles E. Stillwell, William L. Michaels, and Marvin D. Grosslein, NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-NE-155 (2000)
4Food Web Relationships of Northern Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca : a Synthesis of the Available Knowledge, Charles A. Simenstad, Bruce S. Miller, Carl F. Nyblade, Kathleen Thornburgh, and Lewis J. Bledsoe, EPA-600 7-29-259 September 1979
5Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0