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Species Summary for Trichodon trichodon - Pacific sandfish - English
URL: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.cfm?genusname=Trichodon&speciesna

Northwestern Pacific: Kamchatka and the Commander Is., Russia. Northeastern Pacific: the Aleutian Is. to Nunivak I., Alaska and San Francisco, California, USA.

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Arctoscopus japonicus (Steindachner) - Korean
URL: http://www.kunsan.ac.kr/fishes/fish230/fish125.html

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Pacific sandfish- Trichodon trichodon - English
URL: http://www.humboldt.edu/~raf1/fishbook/bony/b30.html

A bottom dwelling species which buries itself in the sand for concealment. This ambush predator uses it's large mouth to attack any prey swimming nearby. Observed only once in Humboldt Bay.

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Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. - English
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/61/32/S0063250.html

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Any of various marine fishes that live or burrow in sandy or muddy bottoms, as a scaleless fish of the family Trichodontidae of the northern Pacific. A slender fish (Gonorhynchus gonorhynchus) of the Pacific and Indian oceans, characterized by an angular snout.

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Trichodontidae - English
URL: http://cichlidresearch.com/fish_html/ftrichod.html

The Family Trichodontidae contains these Genera: Arctoscopus, Trichodon.

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Family Trichodontidae - English
URL: http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/FamilySummary.cfm?ID=365

Distribution: North Pacific. Mouth upturned, nearly vertical; the lips fringed. Five sharp spines in opercle. No scales. Spines in dorsal fin 10-15. Normally partly buried in the bottom. About 30 cm maximum length. Two monotypic genera: Arctoscopus and Trichodon.

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InterNevod: Волосозубые (Trichodontidae) - Russian
URL: http://www.internevod.com/rus/academy/bio/k_fish/trichodontidae.shtml

Волосозубы живут в северных водах Тихого океана от Камчатки и Аляски до Кореи и Калифорнии. Они зарываются в песок, подстерегая добычу так, что наружу торчат только рот и глаза. В этом семействе только 2 вида - японский волосозуб и северный волосозуб.

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