Agonidae

Thesaurus

Noun

Agonidae - poachersfamily Agonidaefish family - any of various families of fishorder Scleroparei, Scleroparei - scorpionfishes; sculpins; gurnards; greenlings; flying gurnardssea poacher, sea poker, poacher - small slender fish (to 8 inches) with body covered by bony plates; chiefly of deeper northern Pacific watersAgonus, genus Agonus - type genus of the AgonidaeAspidophoroides, genus Aspidophoroides - alligatorfishes

Agonidae

[ə′gän·ə·dē] (vertebrate zoology) The poachers, a small family of marine perciform fishes in the suborder Cottoidei.

Agonidae

a family of fishes of the suborder Cottoidei of the order Perciformes. Body length, 10–20 cm (sometimes to 40 cm). The body is enclosed in a hard armor consisting of eight longitudinal rows of large bony plates. There are more than 25 genera, with 50 species. The fishes are found primarily in the northern Pacific. Only one endemic genus is known in the north Atlantic, Arctic, and Antarctic oceans. The Agonidae are bottom-dwelling fishes. They usually spawn in the summer and autumn, depositing large, sticky eggs. The fishes feed on benthic invertebrates.

REFERENCE

Nikol’skii, G. V. Chastnaia ikhtiologiia, 3rd ed. Moscow, 1971.

Agonidae

noun

Synonyms for Agonidae

noun poachers

Synonyms

family Agonidae

Related Words

fish family
order Scleroparei
Scleroparei
sea poacher
sea poker
poacher
Agonus
genus Agonus
Aspidophoroides
genus Aspidophoroides

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