The alligatorfish (''Aspidophoroides monopterygius'', also known commonly as the Aleutian alligatorfish and the Atlantic alligatorfish) is a fish in the family
Agonidae
Agonidae is a family of small, bottom-dwelling, cold-water marine fish. Common names for members of this family include poachers, Irish lords, sea ravens, alligatorfishes, starsnouts, hooknoses, and rockheads. They are notable for having elongate ...
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[''Aspidophoroides monopterygius''](_blank)
at www.fishbase.org. It was described by
Marcus Elieser Bloch in 1786.
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temperate water-dwelling fish which is known from the northwestern
Atlantic Ocean, including western
Greenland;
Labrador,
Canada; and
Cape Cod,
Massachusetts,
USA. It dwells at a depth range of 0–695 metres, most often around 60–150 m, and inhabits sand and mud bottoms mostly on the lower continental shelf all year. It prefers a temperature range of -1.07 to 2.52 °C. Males can reach a maximum
total length of 22 centimetres, but more commonly reach a TL of 14.2 cm.
The Alligatorfish is preyed on by the
Atlantic halibut
The Atlantic halibut (''Hippoglossus hippoglossus'') is a flatfish of the family Pleuronectidae. They are demersal fish living on or near sand, gravel or clay bottoms at depths of between . The halibut is among the largest Teleostei, teleost (bon ...
(''Hippoglossus hippoglossus'') and the
Pacific halibut (''Hippoglossus stenolepis''). Its own diet consists primarily of benthic
crustaceans and bottom fauna.
Food items reported for ''Aspidophoroides monopterygius''
at www.fishbase.org.
References
Alligatorfish
The alligatorfish (''Aspidophoroides monopterygius'', also known commonly as the Aleutian alligatorfish and the Atlantic alligatorfish) is a fish in the family Agonidae.
Fish described in 1786
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