Description

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Common Names

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Båndhalet tudsefisk , Danish , Denmark

Bandtail frogfish , English , Mexico

Bandtail frogfish , English , Global

Grenouille à queue barrée , French , France

云斑手躄鱼 , Mandarin Chinese , China

雲斑手躄魚 , Mandarin Chinese , China

Pez sapo cola de banda , Spanish , Galapagos Is.

Ranisapo de rabo listado , Spanish , Mexico

Ranisapo de rabo listado , Spanish , Spain

Ranisapo rabo listado , Spanish , Mexico

Zanahoria , Spanish , Ecuador

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Lophiiformes

Family: Antennariidae

Genus: Antennatus

Species: Antennatus strigatus (Gill, 1863)

Climate Zone

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Tropical

Location

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Eastern Central Pacific: Gulf of California to Ecuador.

Biology

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Found in small recesses on rocky reefs and especially along walls. They blend almost perfectly with the background, they often take the markings of tube-worm snails or appear to be encrusting sponges (Ref. 5227). Demersal. Found between the surface to 15 m in depth; rarely until 38 m.

Habitat

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demersal