#2271 · 🐟 fish
Woolly Sculpin
Clinocottus analis
🐟 Fish 📍 outside Europe
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what is it?
Clinocottus analis is a species of fish in the family Cottidae, one of the families of sculpins. It is known commonly as the woolly sculpin in English and the charrasco lanudo in Spanish. It is native to the eastern Pacific Ocean, where it occurs along the coastline of California and Baja California.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 8,345 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Charles Frédéric Girard in 1858 (168 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Woolly Sculpin
- scientific name
- Clinocottus analis
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Perciformes
- family
- Psychrolutidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 8,345
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1858 by Charles Frédéric Girard
relatives· Psychrolutidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 117533, Wikidata Q2423191, GBIF 2333868, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.