Animalia > Chordata > Scorpaeniformes > Agonidae > Bathyagonus > Bathyagonus pentacanthus

Bathyagonus pentacanthus (Bigeye starsnout poacher; Bigeye starsnout; Bigeye poacher)

Synonyms: Asterotheca pentacantha; Asterotheca pentacanthus; Xenertmus pentacanthus; Xenochirus pentacanthus
Language: Danish; Mandarin Chinese

Wikipedia Abstract

The Bigeye poacher (Bathyagonus pentacanthus, also known commonly as the Bigeye starsnout or the Bigeye starsnout poacher) is a fish in the family Agonidae (poachers). It was described by Charles Henry Gilbert in 1890. It is a marine, subtropical fish which is known from the Gulf of Alaska to southern California, USA, in the northern Pacific Ocean. It dwells at a depth range of 110-910 metres, and inhabits soft bottoms. Males can reach a maximum total length of 23 centimetres. The Bigeye poacher is preyed on by the Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus).
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve II 366714 British Columbia, Canada
Pacific Rim National Park Reserve II 137900 British Columbia, Canada

Predators

Atheresthes evermanni (Kamchatka flounder)[1]
Gadus macrocephalus (Pacific cod)[1]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0