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Species Summary for Arctoscopus japonicus - Sailfin sandfish
North Pacific: Japan to the Bering Sea. [eng] |
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Trichodontidae
The Family Trichodontidae contains these Genera: Arctoscopus, Trichodon. [eng] |
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Family Trichodontidae
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. [eng] |
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Species Summary for Trichodon trichodon - Pacific sandfish
Northwestern Pacific: Kamchatka and the Commander Is., Russia. Northeastern Pacific: the Aleutian Is. to Nunivak I., Alaska and San Francisco, California, USA. [eng] |
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Arctoscopus japonicus (Steindachner)
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Pacific sandfish- Trichodon trichodon
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. [eng] |
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Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.
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. [eng] |
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InterNevod: Волосозубые (Trichodontidae)
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. [rus] |
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