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Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) > Scorpaeniformes (Scorpionfishes and flatheads) > Agonidae (Poachers) > Hypsagoninae
Etymology: Percis: Greek, perke = perch (Ref. 45335).

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Marine; bathydemersal; depth range 19 - 750 m (Ref. 50550). Deep-water, preferred ?

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North Pacific: Sea of Japan to the Sea of Okhotsk and the Bering Sea.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 42.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 43939)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal spines (total): 5 - 7; Dorsal soft rays (total): 6-8; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 7 - 9; Vertebrae: 40 - 42. Snout round, without a barbel on its anterior tip; dorsum highly elevated at nape (Ref. 559). Branchial membranes united, free from isthmus (Ref. 559). Bony plate on body with a large sharp spine (Ref. 559).

Found over rocky gravel and muddy sand bottoms (Ref. 43939).

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Mecklenburg, C.W., T.A. Mecklenburg and L.K. Thorsteinson, 2002. Fishes of Alaska. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, Maryland. xxxvii +1037 p. (Ref. 43939)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 115185)

Not Evaluated

CITES (Ref. 94142)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless

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Percis japonica (Pallas, 1769)