''Bothragonus occidentalis'' is a fish in the family

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.''Bothragonus occidentalis''
at www.fishbase.org. It was described by Georgii Ustinovich Lindberg in 1935.Lindberg, G. U., 1935 ef. 13712''Description of a new species Bothragonus occidentalis (Agonidae Pisces) from the Sea of Japan. Izvestia Akademii nauk Soiuza Sotsialisticheskikh Reespublik.'' VII Seriia, Otdelenie matematischeskikh i estestvennykh nauk = Bulletin de l'Académie des sciences de 'Union des Républiques Sovuétiques Socialistes. VII Série, Classe des sciences + 1935: 1223-1227. It is a

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water-dwelling fish which is known from the northwestern

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, including

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and

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. It is known to dwell at a depth range of 0–100 metres. Males can reach a maximum

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of 7 centimetres.

References

occidentalis Taxa named by Georgii Ustinovich Lindberg Fish described in 1935 {{Scorpaeniformes-stub