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Diagnostic Description

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Snout round, with a rostral plate on its anterior tip. Barbels 2 on posterior tip of lower jaw. Branchial membranes fused with isthmus.

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Dorsal spines (total): 2 - 4; Dorsal soft rays (total): 4 - 5; Analspines: 0; Analsoft rays: 6

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Bothragonus occidentalis is a fish in the family Agonidae.^[1] It was described by Georgii Ustinovich Lindberg in 1935.^[2] It is a marine, temperate water-dwelling fish which is known from the northwestern Pacific Ocean, including Japan and Peter the Great Bay. It is known to dwell at a depth range of 0–100 metres. Males can reach a maximum total length of 7 centimetres.^[1]

^ ^a ^b Bothragonus occidentalis at www.fishbase.org.
^ Lindberg, G. U., 1935 [ref. 13712] Description of a new species Bothragonus occidentalis (Agonidae Pisces) from the Sea of Japan. Izvestia Akademii nauk Soiuza Sotsialisticheskikh Reespublik. VII Seriia, Otdelenie matematischeskikh i estestvennykh nauk = Bulletin de l'Académie des sciences de 'Union des Républiques Sovuétiques Socialistes. VII Série, Classe des sciences + 1935: 1223-1227.

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Bothragonus occidentalis is a fish in the family Agonidae. It was described by Georgii Ustinovich Lindberg in 1935. It is a marine, temperate water-dwelling fish which is known from the northwestern Pacific Ocean, including Japan and Peter the Great Bay. It is known to dwell at a depth range of 0–100 metres. Males can reach a maximum total length of 7 centimetres.