Purplegray Sculpin

Gymnocanthus detrisus

COLLECT VOUCHER: EBS SHELF

Other names: gray-purple sculpin

Brown dorsally with red-purple laterally, may have dusky throat and branchiostegal region; interorbital very wide >14% of head length (interorbital width about equal to snout length); plates on head large and continuous extending from nasal spine to about 2nd dorsal spine , plates between eyes extending onto orbit rims; two rows of 3-4 knobs on head and nape; cleithral spine not evident; anal fin rays 15-20

Occurence: E. Bering Sea; Japan

Depth: 54-450 meters    Size: 36 cm

Species code: 21329

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