Blacktip poacher | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
Family: | Agonidae |
Genus: | Xeneretmus |
Species: | X. latifrons
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Binomial name | |
Xeneretmus latifrons (
Gilbert, 1890)
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Synonyms [1] | |
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The blacktip poacher [2] (Xeneretmus latifrons) is a fish in the family Agonidae. [3] It was described by Charles Henry Gilbert in 1890. [4] It is a marine, deep water-dwelling fish which is known from British Columbia, Canada to Baja California, Mexico, in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It dwells at a depth range of 18–400 metres, and inhabits soft benthic sediments. Males can reach a maximum total length of 19 centimetres. [3]
The blacktip poacher is preyed on by hake, [5] flatfish, and lancetfish. [3] Its own diet consists of mysid crustaceans. [6]