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Icelus spatula (Spatulate sculpin; Twohorned sculpin)

Synonyms: Icelinus spatula; Icelus spatula spatula
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Infraspecies

Icelus spatula bispinis

Attributes

Adult Length [1]  6 inches (14.6 cm)
Litter Size [1]  4,900
Maximum Longevity [1]  7 years
Adult Weight [1]  56 grams

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Ivvavik National Park II 2382752 Yukon, Canada
Quttinirpaaq (Ellesmere Island) National Park Reserve II 9436606 Nunavut, Canada

Prey / Diet

Deflexilodes intermedius[2]
Diastylis rathkei[2]
Maera loveni[2]
Rhachotropis oculata[2]

Predators

Gadus macrocephalus (Pacific cod)[2]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1SOME BIOLOGICAL FEATURES OF RARE AND POORLY-STUDIED SCULPINS (COTTIDAE, HEMITRIPTERIDAE, PSYCHROLUTIDAE) IN THE PACIFIC WATERS OFF THE NORTHERN KURIL ISLANDS AND SOUTHEASTERN KAMCHATKA, RUSSIAN FEDERATION, Alexei M. Tokranov, Alexei M. Orlov, THE RAFFLES BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGY 2007 Supplement No. 14: 187-198
♦ 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.
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