Hypsagonus quadricornis (Valenciennes 1829)
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Scorpaeniformes
- family
- Agonidae
- genus
- Hypsagonus
- species
- Hypsagonus quadricornis
description
Fourhorn Poacher. To 12 cm (4.7 in) TL (Tokranov and Orlov 2004). Northern Japan and Sea of Okhotsk, to Commander – Aleutian Chain, and Bering Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), to northeastern Chukchi Sea as far north as 71 ° 01 ’ N, 164 ° 52 ’ W (Mecklenburg et al. 2016), to Puget Sound, Washington (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Benthic; depth: intertidal to 452 m (1,483 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2016). The species name is often attributed to Cuvier, but Valenciennes provided both the species name and the description; the full citation is Valenciennes in Cuvier & Valenciennes, 1829 (Sheiko 1993; see also Mecklenburg et al. 2002, Sheiko and Mecklenburg 2004).