Author: (Linnaeus, 1766)
FBname: Fourbeard rockling
Comments: Sedentary bottom dwellers on muddy sand between patches of hard substrate, or on the soft, smooth ground of deep sinks on the continental slopes of both sides of the North Atlantic.  Feed on flatfishes, amphipods, decapods, copepods, mysids, shrimps, isopods and other small crustaceans.  Spawn in the Baltic Sea (Ref. 35388).  Mixed with soups and other products hot-smoked (Ref. 1371).