Hypsagonus corniger

Hypsagonus corniger
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Agonidae
Genus: Hypsagonus
Species: H. corniger
Binomial name
Hypsagonus corniger
Taranetz, 1933

Hypsagonus corniger is a fish in the family Agonidae (poachers).[1] It was described by Anatoly Yakovlevich Taranetz in 1933.[2] It is a marine, polar water-dwelling fish which is known from the southern Okhotsk Sea and the northern Sea of Japan, in the northwestern Pacific Ocean. It dwells at a depth range of 18 to 105 metres (59 to 344 ft). Males can reach a maximum total length of 10 centimetres (3.9 in).[1]

References

  1. 1 2 Hypsagonus corniger at www.fishbase.org.
  2. Taranetz, A. Ya., 1933 [ref. 15743] New data on the ichthyofauna of the Bering Sea. Bulletin of the Far Eastern Branch of the Academy of Sciences U.S.S.R. 1933 (nos 1-2-3): 67-78.


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