Longfin sculpin

The longfin sculpin (Jordania zonope) is a small marine ray-finned fish of the northeastern Pacific Ocean. It belongs to the family Jordaniidae, a small family of sculpins, and it is the only known species in its genus, Jordania, which Edwin Chapin Starks named in 1895 in honour of his teacher David Starr Jordan, from fish taken at Point Orchard in Puget Sound near Seattle, Washington. The fish has a long slender body, two dorsal fins and a long yellow-orange anal fin that contrasts with an olive-green body broken by sinuous red bands, and it reaches about 15 cm in total length. It ranges from Baranof Island in southeastern Alaska to Point Lobos in central California, living on the bottom at depths of 2 to 38 m over rocky areas and among kelp. It darkens at night to camouflage itself, feeds on benthic arthropods such as crabs, hermit crabs, isopods and shrimp, and has been recorded cleaning larger fishes such as the lingcod.