Larger sculpins eat small fish, frogs, and molluscs. His most important totemic animals are loons, seals, sea lions, octopuses, orcas, and sculpins. Adults are frequently eaten by cabezon, gulls, sea otters and staghorn sculpins. Slimy sculpins often look very similar to the tubenose goby as well. Psychrolutes is a genus of fish of the family Psychrolutidae (fathead sculpins). They are closely related to the sculpins (family Cottidae) and lumpfish (family Cyclopteridae). In British Columbia, the primary prey species are sticklebacks, gunnels, sculpins, and perch. Female and immature mottled sculpins are commonly found in clean water rock substrates. Slimy sculpins have also been found in eastern Siberia, Russia. Slimy sculpins have also been found roaming the cold streams of eastern Siberia. The Abyssocottidae are a family of fishes in the superfamily Cottoidea, the sculpins. One study found mottled sculpins to be the third most sensitive aquatic species to zinc. The eggs and larvae are food for sculpins. Male slimy sculpins have also been seen protecting their young after hatching as well. Mottled sculpins, "Cottus bairdi", are a common fish throughout most of North America.