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Teleostei (teleosts) > Perciformes/Scorpaenoidei (Scorpionfishes) > Triglidae (Searobins) > Prionotinae
Etymology: Bellator: Latin, bellator, -oris = warrior.
More on authors: Goode & Bean.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; brackish; demersal; depth range 40 - 110 m (Ref. 26938). Subtropical; 37°N - 20°N, 98°W - 75°W

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Western Atlantic: North Carolina to southern Florida and northern Gulf of Mexico in USA; south to Yucatan in Mexico.

Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: L_m ? range ? - ? cm
Max length : 12.5 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 7251)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Males have first 2 dorsal spines extremely long, reaching to tip of tail.

Found from bays and estuaries to the mid-shelf. Neither anterolateral glandular grooves nor venom gland is present (Ref. 57406).

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Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Robins, C.R. and G.C. Ray, 1986. A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A. 354 p. (Ref. 7251)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 20 August 2012

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

Harmless (Ref. 57406)

Human uses

FAO - Publication: search | FishSource | Sea Around Us

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Bellator militaris (Goode & Bean, 1896)