Schmidt's Sculpin

This species is distinguished by the following set of characters: deeply bicuspid nasal spines; uppermost preopercular spine not barbed; elongated first dorsal fin in males; lateral line extend past caudal fin base, with 2 or 3 lateral line pores on caudal fin; no ventral lateral cirrus and lateral line cirri (Ref. 83439).

Dorsal spines (total): 6 - 8; Dorsal soft rays (total): 11 - 13; Analsoft rays: 10 - 13