Ibodango - Pacific spiny lumpsucker

Japanese: イボダンゴ - いぼだんご(英語表記)Pacific spiny lumpsucker
Ibodango - Pacific spiny lumpsucker

This marine fish belongs to the order Perciformes and family Bogfish. It is found in Toyama and Niigata prefectures on the Sea of ​​Japan side, and in the Pacific Ocean from the coast of Iwate prefecture, through the Kuril Islands and the Bering Sea, to off the coast of Washington state in the United States. Its body is spherical, with scattered bumps about the size of an eye or smaller. There are no wart-like protrusions on the ventral surface of the lower jaw. There is a sucker on the ventral surface that is a modified ventral fin. The first dorsal fin is high and has many bumps. The body is light brown. It usually lives at depths of less than 200 meters, but there are records of it being caught from 575 meters. It only grows to about 10 centimeters in length. It has no edible value.

[Kunio Amano]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

硬骨魚綱スズキ目ダンゴウオ科に属する海水魚。日本海側では富山県と新潟県、太平洋側では岩手県沿岸から千島列島、ベーリング海を経て、アメリカのワシントン州沖までに分布する。体は球形で、眼径ぐらいの大きさか、あるいはそれより小さいこぶ状突起が散らばる。下顎(かがく)の腹面にはいぼ状突起がない。腹面に腹びれが変化した吸盤がある。第1背びれは高くて、多くのこぶ状突起がある。体は淡褐色。普通、水深200メートル以浅にすむが、575メートルから捕れた記録がある。体長約10センチメートルにしかならない。食用としての価値はない。

[尼岡邦夫]

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