The ocellated frogfish, ''Fowlerichthys ocellatus'', is a

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of the

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Antennariidae, found in the western

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including the eastern portion of the

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, and the

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, to depths of 150 m. Its grows to a length of TL. All Frogfish have unique characteristics compared to other fish, they stated that, it usually has “…first and second dorsal-fin spines, some or all fins fringed with red, and a unique combination of fin-ray and vertebral counts (2014). \ Ocellated frogfish

References

* *Arnold, R. J., Harcourt, R., Pietsch, T. W., (2014). A New Genus and Species of the Frogfish Family from Family Antennariidae (Teleostei: Lophiiformes: Antennariid) from New South Wales, Australia, with a Diagnosis and Key to the Genera of Histiophyrninae. ''Copeia''.(3),534-539. 10.1643/Cl-13-155 *Pietsch, T. W., Arnold, J. R. (2017). The “Lembeh Frogfish” Identified: Redescription of ''Nudiantennarius subteres'' (Smith and Redcliffe, in Radcliffe, 1912) (Teleostei: Lophiiformes: Antennariid). ''Copeia''. ''105''.(4),657-663. 10.1643/Cl-17-651 Antennariidae Fish of the Atlantic Ocean Fish described in 1801 {{Lophiiformes-stub