Poacher (fish)

Stone Picker ( Agonus cataphractus )

Panzer bullheads ( Agonidae ) are small bony fishes ( Osteichthyes ). They live in the coastal zones of the Arctic Sea, the North Atlantic, the North Pacific and southern South America to a depth of 1000 meters.

Features

You have a bone plates armored, elongated body and no swim bladder. The fish have at least one, but usually two short dorsal fins, the first with 2-21 hard jets, the second with 4 to 14 soft fin rays. The anal fin has 4-28 rays, the vestigial pelvic fins a hard and two soft fin rays, the caudal fin ten to twelve. Panzer bullheads have 34 to 47 vertebrae and a maximum of 30 inches long. One can prove the animals fossil since the Lower Eocene.

The tank bullheads heard as well-known and native species of stone picker ( Agonus cataphractus ) from North and Baltic Sea.

System

There are 6 sub-families 22 genera and 45-47 species.

  • Subfamily Hypsagoninae, 3 genera, 7 species
  • Subfamily Bathyagoninae, 3 genera, 9 species
  • Subfamily Bothragoninae, 1 genus, 2 species
  • Subfamily Anoplagoninae, 3 genera, 5 species
  • Subfamily Agoninae, 6 genera, 13-15 species
  • Subfamily Brachyopsinae, 6 genera, 9 species
Perciformes Bothragonus Joseph S. Nelson FishBase
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