Summary ³

Hexagrammos decagrammus, the kelp greenling, is a species of greenling that occurs in rocky nearshore areas of the northern Pacific especially around British Columbia and Alaska, and is common on kelp beds and on sand bottoms. They feed on crustaceans, polychaete worms, brittle stars, mollusks, and small fishes. The young are food for large predators such as lingcod and halibut.

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3. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagrammos_decagrammus

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