Smoothcheek sculpin
Amazing fact
The smoothcheek sculpin has a tadpole-shaped body.
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The smoothcheek sculpin has a tadpole-shaped body.
THE REAL WORLD
The real Smoothcheek sculpin
- Scientific name
- Eurymen gyrinus
- Japanese name
- ヤギシリカジカ
- Group
- Ocean animals
- Order
- Perciformes
- Family
- Psychrolutidae
- Genus
- Eurymen
How the Smoothcheek sculpin lives
It is a fish that lives on the seabed. A specimen has been recorded with small gobies in its stomach.
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- Range
- Around Hokkaido, northern Sea of Japan, and Bering Sea
Where the Smoothcheek sculpin has been recorded
Records: GBIF.org (CC0 and CC BY 4.0 records, retrieved 2026-11-07). Map: Natural EarthSee the records on GBIF
Watch wild animals from a distance. Do not touch or feed them, and take care of the places where they live.
Names around the world
- 日本語
- ヤギシリカジカ
- 简体中文
- 蝌蚪宽杜父鱼
- 繁體中文
- 蝌蚪寬杜父魚
- 한국어
- 털수배기
- Русский
- Красногубый эуримен
Names come from Wikidata and iNaturalist records. Where a language has no recorded name, we use the scientific name.
Sources and how we check
- 鳥羽水族館 — ヤギシリカジカChecked: 2026-11-04
- Музей Национального научного центра морской биологии ДВО РАН — Головастиковидный бычокChecked: 2026-11-07
We check each fact against its source. The illustrations simplify how the real animal looks.
The classification (class, order, family, genus) follows Wikidata records, checked against GBIF. Classifications can change as research goes on.
The basic data are the values given in each source. They vary with how the animal is measured, whether it is male or female, and whether it lives in the wild or in captivity.
This page was translated from the original Japanese with the help of AI.
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