Pacific footballfish

Pacific footballfish
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Lophiiformes
Family: Himantolophidae
Genus: Himantolophus
Species: H. sagamius
Binomial name
Himantolophus sagamius
(S. Tanaka (I), 1918)

The Pacific footballfish (Himantolophus sagamius) is a species found in the Pacific: Kuril-Kamchatka trough, coast of the Hokkaido and Honshu islands (Gulf of Sagami), and from California to Peru.[1]

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