Basketweave Cusk-Eel
Cusk-Eel from the Newport Pier Cusk-Eels: Family Ophidiidae Species: Ophidion scrippsae (Hubbs, 1916); from the words otophidium (referring to the large sacklike inner ear) and scrippsi (in honor of Ellen Browning Scripps who helped establish the Scripps Institution of Oceanography). Alternate Names: Eel or California…
