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Wild About Illinois Fishes!

Family Cottidae - Sculpin Family

Family: Cottidae - Sculpins have a large mouth, large fanlike pectoral fins, one to four spines at the front of the gill cover, no or few scales and two dorsal fins.
     mottled sculpin (Cottus bairdii) [state threatened]
     banded sculpin (Cottus carolinae)
     slimy sculpin (Cottus cognatus)
     deepwater sculpin (Myoxocephalus thompsonii)

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