Shorthorn Sculpin

Myoxocephalus scorpius (Linnaeus 1758)

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Myoxocephalus scorpius (Shorthorn Sculpin) is a species of ray-finned fishes in the family sculpins. Individuals can grow to 60.0 cm.

EOL has data for 19 attributes, including:

parasitized by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002445
- Comment: Auto-added during harvest #37. A human needs to edit this.
- Attribution: Global Biotic Interactions
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Bothriocephalus scorpii (Müller 1776) Cooper 1917
body size
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBA_VT0100005
- Definition: The size of a multicellular organism
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60 cm
geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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United States
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/6252001
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habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
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sea sand
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002118
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harvested in
- URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/harvested_in
- Definition: This organism is caught or collected, and put to human use, in the following region(s)
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Latvia
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/458258
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has ectoparasite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002633
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Gyrodactylus groenlandicus Levinsen 1881
has endoparasite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002635
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Myoxocephalus scorpius (Linnaeus 1758) (Shorthorn sculpin)
Total length
- URI: http://purl.org/obo/owlATOL_0001660
- Definition: length from the tip of the snout to the tip of the longer lobe of the caudal fin, usually measured with the lobes compressed along the midline. It is a straight-line measure, not measured over the curve of the body
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60.0 cm
water depth
- URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/verbatimDepth
- Definition: The depth of seawater at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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482 m
water temperature
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/SeawaterTemperature
- Definition: Temperature of the water at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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-2.072 degrees celsius

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Shorthorn sculpin. View this species on GBIF

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