Kingdom Animalia Family Agonidae Genus Xeneretmus Order Scorpaeniformes | Class Actinopterygii Phylum Chordata Rank Species | |
Similar Northern spearnose poacher, Fourhorn poacher, Rockhead, Sturgeon poacher | ||
The Blacktip poacher (Xeneretmus latifrons) is a fish in the family Agonidae (poachers). It was described by Charles Henry Gilbert in 1890. It is a marine, deep water-dwelling fish which is known from British Columbia, Canada to Baja California, Mexico, in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It dwells at a depth range of 18-400 metres, and inhabits soft benthic sediments. Males can reach a maximum total length of 19 centimetres.
The Blacktip poacher is preyed on by hake, flatfish, and lancetfish. Its own diet consists of mysid crustaceans.
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