The blacktip poacher (''Xeneretmus latifrons'') 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 ...

.''Xeneretmus latifrons''
at www.fishbase.org. It was described by Charles Henry Gilbert 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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, deep water-dwelling fish which is known from British Columbia, Canada to Baja California, Mexico, in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It dwells at a depth range of 18–400 metres, and inhabits soft

benthic The benthic zone is the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean, lake, or stream, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers. The name comes from ancient Greek, βένθος (bénthos), meaning "t ...

sediments. Males can reach a maximum total length of 19 centimetres. The blacktip poacher is preyed on by hake,

flatfish A flatfish is a member of the Ray-finned fish, ray-finned demersal fish order (biology), order Pleuronectiformes, also called the Heterosomata, sometimes classified as a suborder of Perciformes. In many species, both eyes lie on one side of the ...

, and lancetfish. Its own diet consists of mysid crustaceans.Food items reported for ''Xeneretmus latifrons''
at www.fishbase.org.

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Blacktip poacher The blacktip poacher (''Xeneretmus latifrons'') is a fish in the family Agonidae.''Xen ...

Fish described in 1890 Taxa named by Charles Henry Gilbert {{Scorpaeniformes-stub