Atlantic hookear sculpin
📖 Overview
Occur on sandy or muddy bottoms . Benthic . Feed on polychaetes, small mollusks and very rarely small crustaceans . Lives at temperatures of -1.7-4°C. Females lay 50-350 eggs with a diameter of 4mm in late summer .
🔬 Taxonomy
🐟 Physical Description
Gill membranes joined to each other under the throat, lateral line scales without bony knobs. Upper spine of the front gill cover curved upwards .: elongated.
🌀 Behaviour
Behavioural data for Atlantic hookear sculpin is currently being reviewed.
🦐 Diet
Diet information for Atlantic hookear sculpin is currently being compiled.
🥚 Reproduction
Reproduction data for Atlantic hookear sculpin is currently being compiled.
🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Marine; demersal; depth range 35 - 900 m . Temperate; -2°C - 4°C ; 80°N - 41°N, 71°W - 41°E Northwest Atlantic: Greenland and Canada to Cape Cod in Massachusetts, USA.
🌿 Ecology
polychaetes, small mollusks and very rarely small crustaceans (Ref
📐 Morphometrics
🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance
📊 Population Risk & Fisheries
🌐 Names & Taxonomy
| Language | Common Names |
|---|---|
| 🇬🇧English | Atlantic Hook-ear Sculpin · Atlantic hookear sculpin · Hookhorn sculpin |
| 🌍CES | vranka atlantská |
| 🌍CYM | Sgorpioniaid Môr Bachog · sgorpion môr bachog |
| 🇩🇰Danish | Atlantisk halvulk |
| 🇫🇮Finnish | atlantinkoukkusimppu |
| 🇫🇷French | Chaboisseau atlantique · hameçon atlantique |
| 🌍ISL | Krækill |
| 🌍NNO | krokulke |
| 🌍NOB | krokulke |
| 🇳🇴Norwegian | Krokulke |
| 🇷🇺Russian | Атлантический бычок-крючкорог · Атлантический крючкорог · крючкорогий бычок |
| 🇸🇪Swedish | halvulk |
🔍 Similar Species
🗺️ Global Occurrence Map
Occurrence records from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) - 59 records indexed .
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