''Aspidophoroides'' is a

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of poachers native to the northern Pacific and

Atlantic The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe an ...

oceans.

Species

There are currently two recognized species in this genus: * ''

Aspidophoroides monopterygius The alligatorfish (''Aspidophoroides monopterygius'', also known commonly as the Aleutian alligatorfish and the Atlantic alligatorfish) is a fish in the family Agonidae.

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, 1786) (Alligatorfish) * ''

Aspidophoroides olrikii The Arctic alligatorfish (''Aspidophoroides olrikii'') is a fish in the family Agonidae.Lütken, 1877 (Arctic alligatorfish)

References

Anoplagoninae Taxa named by Bernard Germain de Lacépède {{Scorpaeniformes-stub