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Genus · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Bothragonus

WoRMS 268565ITIS 643576key worms:268565
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2026-08-05: itis_id 643576 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · Nathan Hermann · CC0 1.0 · PhyloPic, drawn from Hemitripterus americanus

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Rockhead poacher (or deep-pitted poacher) on top of a rock scallop at the Oregon Coast Aquarium.
Photo · Rhinopias · CC BY-SA 4.0 · commons

Bothragonus is a genus of marine ray-finned fishes belonging to the family Agonidae, the poachers and related fishes. It is the only genus in monotypic subfamily Bothragoninae.W CalCOFI holds 3 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1966 and 2013.R

3
observations
3
records
1966–2013
years
1
datasets

Observed in

Nothing is keyed to this taxon directly — every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa below.

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
R
library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:268565")