Sawback poacher | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Scorpaeniformes |
Family: | Agonidae |
Genus: | Sarritor |
Species: | S. frenatus
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Binomial name | |
Sarritor frenatus (
Gilbert, 1896)
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Synonyms [1] | |
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The sawback poacher [2] (Sarritor frenatus) is a species of fish in the family Agonidae. [3] It was described by Charles Henry Gilbert in 1896, originally under the genus Odontopyxis. [4] It is a marine, temperate water-dwelling fish which is known from the northern Pacific Ocean, including Japan, the Gulf of Anadyr, the Bering Sea, the Aleutian chain, and British Columbia, Canada. It dwells at a depth range of 18 to 975 metres (59 to 3,199 ft), and inhabits soft sediments. Males can reach a maximum total length of 27 centimetres (11 in). [3]
The sawback poacher is preyed on by bony fish including the Pacific cod, the Kamchatka flounder, the Pacific halibut, the Aleutian skate, and Careproctus cyclocephalus. [5] Its own diet consists of fish, fish eggs, fish offal, amphipods, euphausiids, isopods, shrimp, and polychaetes. [6]