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Tuesday afternoon at Redondo Kathy found this brown rockfish with another fish sticking out of its mouth. We've been looking at the pictures she managed to get - he was not in a mood to sit still - and trying to identify the losing fish. I've tentatively concluded that it's a sculpin of some kind, and based on the top-down shots I'm thinking sailfin sculpin. But I'd like to poll the group and see what other opinions there are. Here are the pix:
fish-in-fish1.jpg
fish-in-fish2.jpg
fish-in-fish3.jpg
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My vote is this. Image
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I couldn't decide between sailfin and roughback. Anybody else got an idea?
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I vote roughback- first pic shows that somewhat oval (rather than round) eye shape that is characteristic of the species
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My first thought based on the shape and positioning of the eyes was Roughback.

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