Description

Also known as Flying Gurnard, Grunt Fish, Gurnard.

Found singly, on mud and sandy bottoms, of shallow bays, estuaries, and deeper to the mid shelf, sometimes buried in the sand, they are more active at night, where they use their lower spine Pectoral fins like feet, to feel for invertebrates.
They feed nocturnally on benthic invertebrates.
Juveniles found in estuaries.
Length - 12.5cm
Depth - 20-210m
Widespread Western Atlantic

Sea robins have heavily armoured, spiny heads. They have separate rays (like soft spines) on their bellies, near the Pectoral fins these spines act like legs, as the fish walks along the bottom of the ocean they use these spines to find crustaceans in the sand.
They also grunt. French term for the word Gurnard means to grunt.
They have poisonous spines on their backs. Ref: https://www.fishbase.se/summary/Bellator-militaris