Baby Thornback Sculpin
Parcelinus hopliticus Eigenmann and Eigenmann

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5.5 mm size of a Thornback Sculpin

Top, dorsal view; Middle, lateral view; Bottom, ventral view.

DATA ABOUT SPECIMEN ABOVE

Specimen above caught: 7 January, 1974.
Collection site: Broken Island Group, Barkley Sound, Pacific Ocean, British Columbia, Canada.
Collection depth: Daylight, near-surface depths, along the islands over 30 m of water.
Collection method: Ten-minute tows of a conical, fine-mesh townet.
Collector: John Dobrocky, Dobrocky Seatech, Ltd., Victoria, BC.
Illustration above: Copyright, 2000, Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.