prickleback in English

noun
1
a long slender fish with a spiny dorsal fin running the length of the body. It lives in cooler seas of the northern hemisphere, typically in shallow inshore waters.
Two such methods include coiling the body around the eggs ( pricklebacks and gunnels) and covering the eggs with algae (temperate sculpins and wrasses).

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