Facts: The Grunt Sculpin

The fish female hold male hostage? Nice, where can I find a girl like that 🤣

They look like they just crawl, not swim. Am I right?

Mail-cheeked fish are spiny-rayed fish of the order Scorpaeniformes, there are over two-thousand, two-hundred, and ninty-three extant species within fifty families, eighteen superfamilies, and six suborders, the six main groups within the Scorpaeniformes order are the suborders Normanichthyoidei (Bacaladillo, Prettyfin, and Sandfish), Platycephaloidei (Flatheads and Gurnards), Uranoscopoidei (Stargazers, Duckbills, Launces, Sanddivers, and Sandburrowers), Zoarcoidei (Eelpouts, Wolffish, Wolfeel, Pricklebacks, Wrymouths, Gunnels, Goblin Goby, Graveldiver, Ronquils, and Quillfish), Cottoidei (Sculpins, Lumpsuckers, Snailfish, Greenlings, Blackcod, and Combfish), and Scorpaenoidei (Scorpionfish, Lionfish, Stonefish, Stingfish, Coral Crouchers, Rockfish, Cofish, Prowfish, Toad Blenny, Horsefish, and Pigfish), Normanichthyoidei is the most basal living suborder of mail-cheeked fish and consists of two superfamilies, Trichodontoidea (Sandfish) with the monotypic families Trichodontidae (American Sandfish) and Arctoscopidae (Asiatic Sandfish) and Normanichthyoidea (Bacaladillo and Prettyfin) with the monotypic families Normanichthyidae (Bacaladillo) and Centrogenyidae (Prettyfin), followed by Platycephaloidei, which consists of two superfamilies, Trigloidea (Gurnards) with the families Triglidae (Common Gurnards), Peristediidae (Armored Gurnards), and Dactylopteridae (Flying Gurnards) and Platycephaloidea (Flatheads) with the families Platycephalidae (True Flatheads), Hoplichthyidae (Ghost Flatheads), and Bembridae (Deepwater Flatheads), then followed by Uranoscopoidei, which consists of four superfamilies, Creedioidea (Sandburrowers and Fossil Relatives) with only the family Creediidae (Sandburrowers), Ammodytoidea (Launces and Sanddivers) with the families Trichonotidae (Sanddivers) and Ammodytidae (Launces), Uranoscopoidea (Stargazers) with the families Leptoscopidae (Southern Stargazers) and Uranoscopidae (Northern Stargazers), and Percophoidea (Duckbills) with the families Percophidae (Brazilian Duckbill), Bembropidae (Gobiine Duckbills), and Hemerocoetidae (Blenniine Duckbills), and then followed by Zoarcoidei, which consists of four superfamilies, Bathymasteroidea (Ronquils and Quillfish) with the families Bathymasteridae (Ronquils) and Ptilichthyidae (Quillfish), Zaproroidea (Goblin Goby and Graveldiver) with the monotypic families Zaproridae (Goblin Goby) and Scytalinidae (Graveldiver), Zoarcoidea (Eelpouts) with the families Eulophiidae (Spinous Eelpouts) and Zoarcidae (True Eelpouts), and Anarhichadoidea (Wolffish, Wolfeel, Pricklebacks, Wrymouths, and Gunnels) with the families Pholidae (Gunnels), Cryptacanthodidae (Wrymouths), Stichaeidae (Pricklebacks), and Anarhichadidae (Wolffish and Wolfeel), the most recent split is between the suborders Cottoidei and Scorpaenoidei, the Cottoidei suborder contains three superfamilies, Hexagrammoidea (Greenlings, Blackcod, and Combfish) with the families Zaniolepididae (Combfish), Anoplopomatidae (Blackcod), and Hexagrammidae (Greenlings), Cyclopteroidea (Lumpsuckers and Snailfish) with the families Liparidae (Snailfish) and Cyclopteridae (Lumpsuckers), and Cottoidea (Sculpins) with the families Jordaniidae (Sailfin Sculpins), Agonidae (Poachers), Rhamphocottidae (Gruntfish), Bathylutichthyidae (Antarctic Sculpins), Ereuniidae (Deepwater Bullhead Sculpins), Psychrolutidae (Fathead Sculpins), Comephoridae (Baikal Sculpins), Hemitripteridae (Sea Ravens), and Cottidae (Common Sculpins), and the Scorpaenoidei suborder is also divided into three superfamilies, Congiopodoidea (Horsefish, Pigfish, and Velvetfish) with the families Aploactinidae (Velvetfish) and Congiopodidae (Horsefish and Pigfish), Pataecoidea (Prowfish and Toad Blenny) with the families Gnathanacanthidae (Toad Blenny) and Pataecidae (Prowfish), and Scorpaenoidea (Scorpionfish, Lionfish, Stonefish, Stingfish, Coral Crouchers, Rockfish, and Cofish) with the families Eschmeyeridae (Cofish), Sebastidae (Rockfish), Pteroidae (Lionfish, Stonefish, Stingfish, and Coral Crouchers), and Scorpaenidae (Scorpionfish).

Have you done the irukandji jellyfish?

Hi DMS! Wow what a great story ! This fish has one of the most interesting tale's to be told. Beautifully marked and strangely assembled ...one of a kind. Thanks so much for bringing it to our attention.👏❤

Another new species! Yes!!!

An odd fish indeed! Super interesting !

Excellent video about a fish with a very interesting reproductive strategy! 😂 Thanks, DMS!

They are quite small…what an interesting Dr Seuss fish!

They look like something camouflaged as a fish, but are actual fish xD. They look like somewhat hermit crabs walking or even a clown fish wearing a shell...so the description that they disguise as barnacles, even with their prickles being more vivid colored to mimic the appendages of live feeding barnacles is so fitting.

what an odd looking creature. I love it!

POKEBALL GO!

Wow, very unique in a lot of ways! Not even a deep sea fish.

😮😮😮😮oooohhhh my see the female grunting fish is confused!! I will unconfuse her to ket her know that all males are bad!!! Well atleast the humans males I'm sure she captured a good 1!!! Kooooodoooohs for the female grunting fish!! Yahooooo!!!❤❤❤❤😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤

Please do elephant fish aka Australian ghost shark

Cute fish