Hamecon

Often one of the most abundant sculpins in bottom trawl catches in the Arctic Ocean

Feeds primarily on polychaetes, gammarid amphipods, and mysids; also cumaceans, euphausiids, hyperiid amphipods, isopods

First preopercular spine hooked upwards; Numerous fleshy cirri on the head and anterior portion of the lateral line; No nasal spines, the top of the head and anterior portion of the back covered with fine tubercles; The 1st dorsal fin of males with a black blotch posteriorly

Arctic faunal region; Benthic, at depths of 10-290 m (33-951 ft), typically < 55 m,; Found on mud, sand, gravel, and rock substrates; Burrows into muddy-sandy substrate

Spawn in late autumn. Number of eggs 50-100; Mature by 3-4 years of age or >5.6 cm; Attain at least 7 years of age