Averruncus sterletus = southern spearnose poacher (Agonopsis sterletus) Agonopsis sterletus syn. Averruncus sterletus
English: Averruncus Sterletus. New species .
Lower figure is a ventral view.
Subject: Averuncus sterletus
Tag: Fish
Date 1897/1898
Author Charles Henry Gilbert (1859–1928)
Source: https://archive.org/details/reportofcommissi241898unit/page/n252/mode/1up
Source/Photographer
English: Gilbert, Charles H. (1899) Report on fishes obtained by the steamer Albatross in the vicinity of Santa Catalina Island and Monterey Bay, Report of the Commissioner (United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries), 1897-1898, Washington, DC: Government Printing Office
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The southern spearnose poacher (Agonopsis sterletus) is a fish in the family Agonidae. It was described by Charles Henry Gilbert in 1898, originally under the genus Averruncus. It is a marine, subtropical fish which is known from the eastern central Pacific Ocean, including California, USA to Baja California, Mexico.
Order: Scorpaeniformes
Family: Agonidae
Genus: Agonopsis
Species: Agonopsis sterletus (Gilbert, 1898)
Synonyms: Averruncus sterletus Gilbert, 1898