Wide-Eye Sculpin

Icelus euryops

Other names: wide-eyed sculpin

Body color brown to gray, may have 4 dark bars dorsally; nasal tube and anal papillae white; preopercular spines short and upper bifid or trifid; large plate like row of scales below dorsal fin intermixed with 1- 3 rows of smaller similar plates; scales present between dorsal plate-like scales and lateral line; most of head covered in small spiny scales; eyeball very large (30-40% of head length); suborbital spine present

Occurence: Bering Sea to Gulf of Alaska

Depth: 200-740 meters    Size: 16 cm

Species code: 21440

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