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Histrio histrio (Sargassumfish; Sargassum frogfish; Sargassum fish; Sargassum anglerfish; Mouse fish; Marbled angler; Frogfish)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Antennarius is a genus of 11 species of fish in the family Antennariidae. These fish spend most of their lives on the bottom in relatively shallow water between 20 and 100 m. They can be found worldwide in tropical and subtropical waters. They are well-camouflaged ambush predators that wait for prey fish to pass by. They have "lures" which they move to attract the prey. They have little economic value other than a minor role in the aquarium trade. Commerson's frogfish was the first species in this genus to be described, in 1798.
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Infraspecies

Lophius histrio var. histrio

Attributes

Migration [1]  Oceanodromous

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Everglades and Dry Tortugas Biosphere Reserve   Florida, United States  
Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary IV 2387149 Florida, United States
Tsitsikamma National Park II 34343 Southern Cape, South Africa  

Prey / Diet

Histrio histrio (Sargassumfish)[2]
Latreutes fucorum (slender sargassum shrimp)[3]
Leander tenuicornis (brown grass shrimp)[3]
Stephanolepis hispidus (Triggerfish)[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Histrio histrio (Sargassumfish)[2]
Onychoprion fuscatus (Sooty Tern)[2]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Riede, Klaus (2004) Global Register of Migratory Species - from Global to Regional Scales. Final Report of the R&D-Projekt 808 05 081. 330 pages + CD-ROM
♦ 2Jorrit 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.
♦ 3COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND DIETS OF FISHES ASSOCIATED WITH PELAGIC SARGASSUM AND OPEN-WATER HABITATS OFF NORTH CAROLINA, Tara L. Casazza, Thesis, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 2008
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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