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394:. There are no scales and the body has a dense covering of bifurcate spinules, the length of the spines on each spinule is three to four times distance between the points of the spines. There is a ring around the eye made up of spinules in tight clusters. There are three dorsal spines, the first is the
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is rounded. The overall colour is beige, light pinkish-brown, yellow to yellowish-brown, the upper part of the head and body is typically slightly darker than the lower head and body. There are irregular, dark-brown to black mottles, particularly on the face and upper surface of the head. The face,
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Arnold, R. J.; R. G. Harcourt; and T. W. Pietsch (2014). "A new genus and species of the frogfish family
Antennariidae (Teleostei: Lophiiformes: Antennarioidei) from New South Wales, Australia, with a diagnosis and key to the genera of the Histiophryninae".
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and a large head. The eyes are small and the upturned mouth is large, filled with many small recurved teeth. The small gill opening is to the rear and below the base of the
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Histiophryninae within the family Antennariidae., while others recognise it as the family Histiophrynidae. However, the 5th edition of
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the upper surface of thehead, including the dorsal spines and dorsal fin greyish may be greyish. This species has a maximum published
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is endemicto the temperate waters of southeastern
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which inhabits inshore reefs at depths between 5 and 70 m (16 and 230 ft).
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367:who was an associate of
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206:Echinophryne mitchellii
150:Echinophryne mitchellii
25:Echinophryne mitchellii
927:Taxa described in 1897
480:"Species in the genus
272:Antennarius mitchellii
192:Trichophryne mitchelli
184:Echinophryne mitchelli
176:Antennarius mitchellii
613:10.1002/9781119174844
605:John Wiley & Sons
525:. Christopher Scharpf
476:Eschmeyer, William N.
219:Mitchell's anglerfish
607:. pp. 508–518.
295:James Douglas Ogilby
231:spinycoat anglerfish
211:long-spined frogfish
675:Fishes of Australia
665:Bray, D.J. (2018).
601:Fishes of the World
332:has the genus name
304:Fishes of the World
266:was first formally
227:prickly angler fish
223:Mitchell's frogfish
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432:Wilsons Promontory
132:E. mitchellii
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379:Description
314:within the
289:in eastern
916:Categories
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462:References
412:caudal fin
404:dorsal fin
276:naturalist
647:25909650M
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350:Aristotle
325:Etymology
287:Lisdillon
285:given as
281:with its
268:described
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126:Species:
64:Kingdom:
58:Eukaryota
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790:FishBase
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715:FishBase
681:13 April
582:FishBase
529:12 April
499:12 April
438:west to
408:anal fin
396:illicium
309:suborder
291:Tasmania
259:Taxonomy
167:Synonyms
104:Family:
78:Chordata
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68:Animalia
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338:echinos
253:endemic
244:in the
160:, 1897)
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354:Cicero
346:suffix
342:phryne
246:family
209:, the
158:Morton
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795:14042
782:38JRL
316:order
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855:NCBI
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683:2024
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617:ISBN
551:2014
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