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Agonus cataphractus, Hooknose
Subject: Agonus cataphractus, Hooknose
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Agonus cataphractus, Hooknose


Author Jonathan Couch (1789–1870) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Couch
Description
English: Pogge
Armed Bullhead Lyrie Sea Poacher Noble Cataphractus Cottus Cataphractus Aspidophore arme Cottus Schoneveldii Aspidophorus Europaeus Aspidophorus Cataphractus Agonus Cataphractus
Subject: Sculpins
Tag: Fish
Date 1877
Source/Photographer
English: Couch, Jonathan (1877) History of the Fishes of the British Isles, London: George Bell & Sons
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FMIB_46136_Pogge.jpeg

Agonus cataphractus, commonly known as the hooknose, pogge or armed bullhead, is a species of fish in the Agonidae family, close to the scorpion fish. It is the only species of the genus Agonus. The species is found in the coastal seas of Norway, the British Isles, the Faeroes and the North Sea. It lives at depths between 2 and 20 metres, but migrates to waters down to 270m in winter. Order: Scorpaeniformes, Family: Agonidae, Genus: Agonus, Species: Agonus cataphractus (Linnaeus, 1758).

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