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- Fringehead in a plastic tube. Scripps Canyon, La Jolla, California
Although usually less than 10 inches long, sarcastic fringeheads are fearless and extremely aggressive, charging anything that approaches their burrows. The sarcastic part of their common name is attributed to their temperament and the fringehead to the distinctive appendages over their eyes.
Facts and Features
- Geographic Distribution
San Francisco Bay south to Cedros Island, Baja California, Mexico
- Amazing Facts
The ocean bottom in Redondo Canyon in southern California is littered with discarded bottles, jars, cans, and similar containers. Divers have observed that many of these littering items house a sarcastic fringehead.
- At the Aquarium
Our sarcastic fringeheads share a habitat with sand dollars and brittle stars in the Redondo Canyon exhibit in the Southern California/Baja Gallery.