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Updated 6/28/2016

Family Antennariidae

CIRCUMTROPICAL

Histrio histrio

Grand Bahama, floating dock

 

Among marine debris, Midway Atoll

SARGASSUMFISH

Rarely found in Hawaii.  Found under floating mats of seaweed in the open ocean.  Occasionally washes into coastal waters.  Attains 8 inches.  A mass of plastic netting retrieved at West Oahu contained at least 50 tiny juveniles.  Circumtropical distribution.