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Pacific footballfish
Specimen preserved at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO 21-41)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Lophiiformes
Family: Himantolophidae
Genus: Himantolophus
Species: H. sagamius
Binomial name
Himantolophus sagamius
(S. Tanaka (I), 1918)

The Pacific footballfish (Himantolophus sagamius) is a species of footballfish (a type of anglerfish) native to the Pacific Ocean. It has a wide range, extending from the coasts of Honshu (Gulf of Sagami) and Hokkaido islands through the Kuril-Kamchatka trough, in the northwest Pacific, to the eastern Pacific from California to Peru. The species is known to live in waters as deep as 3,000 feet (900 m) or 500 fathoms.

Specimen caught off the coast of San Clemente Island

See also

References

  1. "Pacific Footballfish". www.calacademy.org. Retrieved 2024-05-21.
  2. "ITIS standard report: Himantolophus sagamius (Tanaka, 1918)". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Archived from the original on 24 October 2011. Retrieved 25 May 2012.
  3. "Spooky 'Finding Nemo' fish washes up on California beach". BBC News. 12 May 2021. Archived from the original on 12 May 2021. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
Taxon identifiers
Himantolophus sagamius
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