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Antennariidae
Sargassumfish
Histrio histrio
Twenty Centimeters Catfish from New Zealand Waters
- Tropical
- Estuary
- Transcontinental
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- East Asia
- Europe
- North America
- Oceania
- South America
- South Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Deep-bodied
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Marine fish
Africa
Deep-bodied
MediumSargassumfish is a marine fish from Western Atlantic. It inhabits marine waters. The species reaches a recorded maximum of 20 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Anglerfishes
- Family
- Antennariidae
- Genus
- Histrio
- Maximum length
- 20 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Rio de la Plata estuary, Uruguay, to Canada (Ref. 5951 ). Eastern Atlantic: Azores and off West Africa; Gulf Stream drift stray in Norway (Ref. 28571 ). Indian Ocean: South Africa to Red Sea, Madagascar, Réunion and Mauritius, eastward to India and Sri Lanka. Western Pacific: Hokkaido to tropical Australia (as far south as Perth in the west and Sydney in the east), Taiwan, Philippines, Moluccas, southern Papua New Guinea, Guam, Tonga, New Caledonia and New Zealand; Mariana Islands in Micronesia (Ref. 1602 ). Occurrence in the eastern Pacific remains to be verifed and confirmed.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
