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alligatorfish

Aspidophoroides monopterygius

Classification

Family
Agonidae

The alligatorfish (Aspidophoroides monopterygius), also known commonly as the Aleutian alligatorfish and the Atlantic alligatorfish, is a fish in the family Agonidae. It was described by Marcus Elieser Bloch in 1786. It is a marine, temperate water-dwelling fish which is known from the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, including western Greenland; Labrador, Canada; and Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Canada · 2,039United States of America · 166