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Atlantic Poacher, Leptogonus decagonus - English
URL: http://www.arctic.uoguelph.ca/cpl/organisms/fish/marine/poacher/atl_poacher.htm

The Atlantic poacher is an elongate, heavily scaled fish that is restricted to the Arctic. It reaches a maximum length of 23 cm and has a broad, moderately large head adorned with a number of heavy spines.

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Agonomalus (Hypsagonus) proboscidalis - English
URL: http://www.fegi.ru/prim/sea/fish1_27.htm

Agonomalus proboscidalis occurs constantly in small numbers in trawl fishery of bottom fish at 50 m and deeper, where water temperatures even in summer do not rise higher than 5-7oC. Feeds on small invertebrates, which its proboscis, located in the anterior part of the head, apparently helps it find. Normally, the proboscis hangs freely, but the fish can strain it to draw it in forward.

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Agonidae - English
URL: http://www.fmnh.helsinki.fi/users/haaramo/Metazoa/Deuterostoma/Chordata/Actinopt

Phylogenetic tree.

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Family Agonidae - poachers - English
URL: http://www.humboldt.edu/~raf1/fishbook/bony/b20.html

Poachers are fish of cold marine waters in the north Atlantic and north Pacific ocean. They are small fish (less than 30 cm) inhabiting shallow tidepools to depths greater than 700 meters. Their bodies are elongate with the scales modified into bony plates. Although poachers have no market value, commercial trawlers frequently catch them while in pursuit of other species. Pygmy poacher- Odontopyxis trispinosa.

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Family Agonidae - English
URL: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/FamilySummary.cfm?ID=283

Distribution: Arctic, northern North Atlantic, North Pacific, and southern South America. Usually elongate body, covered with bony plates. Pelvic fins thoracic; spine 1, soft rays 2. Dorsal fins 1 or 2; first dorsal fin, when present, spines 2-21; second dorsal fin soft rays 4-14 . Anal fin soft rays 4-28. Principal caudal fin rays 10-12.

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Agonidae - English
URL: http://cichlidresearch.com/fish_html/fagonida.html

The Family Agonidae contains these Genera: Agonopsis, Agonus, Anoplagonus, Aspidophoroides, Bathyagonus = Asterotheca, Bothragonus, Brachyopsis, Chesnonia, Freemanichthys, Hypsagonus = Agonomalus, Leptagonus = Sarritor, Occella, Odontopyxis, Pallasina, Percis, Podothecus, Stellerina, Tilesina, Ulcina, Xeneretmus.

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InterNevod: Агоновые (Agonidae) - Russian
URL: http://www.internevod.com/rus/academy/bio/k_fish/agonidae.shtml

Агоновые (морские лисички) в родственном отношении близки к рогатковым рыбам, но внешне отличаются от них, как и от большинства других рыб, наличием костного панциря, в который заключены тело рыбы и голова. Семейство агоновых рыб содержит шесть подсемейств, которые включают примерно 30 родов и более 50 видов.

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