Abstract
In aquaria at the Auke Bay Laboratory, National Marine Fishery Service (Juneau, AK), several crested sculpins (Blepsias bilobus) periodically sloughed an outer layer of skin simultaneously from all parts of the body and fins. The molt came off as a sheet and appeared highly structured under a compound microscope at 1000X. The crested sculpin is generally found in shallow coastal waters (Shmidt, 1950) and is the more northerly of the two Blepsias species; B. bilobus ranges from the Bering Sea south to British Columbia and Toyama Bay, Japan (Hart, 1973:487--488). Little research has been done on this sculpin, and I found no report of sloughing for this species or any within the Cottidae. Here I relate observations of total skin
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