The bigeye poacher (''Bathyagonus pentacanthus''), also known commonly as the bigeye starsnout or the bigeye starsnout poacher, 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 ...

.''Bathyagonus pentacanthus''
at www.fishbase.org. It was described by

Charles Henry Gilbert Charles Henry Gilbert (December 5, 1859 in Rockford, Illinois – April 20, 1928 in Palo Alto, California) was a pioneer ichthyologist and Fisheries science, fishery biologist of particular significance to natural history of the western Unit ...

in 1890.Gilbert, C. H., 1890 (1 July)

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''A preliminary report on the fishes collected by the steamer Albatross on the Pacific coast of North America during the year 1889, with descriptions of twelve new genera and ninety-two new species.'' Proceedings of the United States National Museum v. 13 (no. 797): 49-126. It is a

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fish which is known from the Gulf of Alaska to southern

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, in the northern

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. It dwells at a depth range of 110–910 metres, and inhabits soft bottoms. Males can reach a maximum

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of 23 centimetres. The Bigeye poacher is preyed on by the

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(''Gadus macrocephalus'').Organisms preying on ''Bathyagonus pentacanthus''
at www.fishbase.org.

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Bigeye poacher The bigeye poacher (''Bathyagonus pentacanthus''), also known commonly as the bigeye starsnout or the bigeye starsnout poacher, is a fish in the family Agonidae.

Fish described in 1890 {{Scorpaeniformes-stub