I’ve been catching a lot of cabs lately, and the last time I caught one, a guy near me said, “Be careful with that sculpin! They have poisonous spikes.”
I thought he was confusing it with a California scorpionfish, but later realized that cabs are a species of sculpin. Maybe he wasn’t confused. So I looked it up, but the internet is telling me everything from “they’re not venomous at all” to “they have a deadly venom in their spines”.
So do I need to be worried about cabezon spikes?
Are cabeezon venomous?
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Re: Are cabeezon venomous?
Good point. True sculpins, such as cabezon, are from the Cottoidea family, whereas the California Scorpionfish is from the Scorpaenidae family.
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