Sculpins are bottom-dwelling, inactive fish. Most are found in shallow sea waters, though some live in deeper wate.... sculpin north

There are about 300 species of sculpins, the largest of which grow about 60 cm (2 feet) long. Familiar marine sculpins of the Atlantic Ocean include such forms as: the bullrout, or shorthorn sculpin ( Myoxocephalus scorpius ), a large, mottled-brownish sculpin found in Europe, the Arctic, and North America; the longhorn sculpin ( M. octodecemspinosus ), a common North American species, variable in colour and with long cheek spines; and the sea raven, a North American fish distinctively adorned with fleshy tabs on its head and notable for its ability, like certain other sculpins, to inflate itself with air when removed from the water. In the Pacific Ocean, there are such species as the cabezone ( Scorpaenichthys marmoratus ), a large, eastern Pacific fish, edible but often having blue- or green-tinted flesh; the staghorn sculpin ( Leptocottus armatus ), a common North American species; and Vellitor centropomus, a long-snouted sculpin common in the Orient. The name sculpin is ! also applied to various other small, primarily northern Pacific fish of the family Icelidae. sculpin north