Brightbelly Sculpin

Microcottus sellaris

Body color purplish with irregular black spots or reddish brown with white bars or blotches on body, belly white, male with orange spotted dorsal fin, white bar between dorsal fins laterally; many pores on head and along lateral line; preopercular spine curved upward; skin smooth

Occurence: Bering Sea to Aleutians; Japan

Depth: 0-55 meters    Size: 17 cm

Species code: 21360

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