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Overview
Found singly camouflaged amongst rocks and seaweed over rock and sandy bottoms of inshore reefs.
Sculpins are small bottom dwelling fish, usually found in both shallow intertidal zones, of coasts and estuaries, and much deeper waters of the oceans, where they are often caught in trawl nets.
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How to identify
- Pattern
- stripeswhite stripes
- Behaviour
- bottom dwellingcamouflagedsolitary
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Habitat & where to find it
- Range · Eastern Pacific
- Country only · 2
LIVES IN
Found singly camouflaged amongst rocks and seaweed over rock and sandy bottoms of inshore reefs.
RANGE
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Adult photos 2
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