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Agonus is a monospecific genus of ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Agoninae in the family Agonidae. Its only species is Agonus cataphractus, commonly known as the hooknose, pogge or armed bullhead. This is a demersal fish found in the coastal waters of the northeastern Atlantic Ocean.
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Least Concernarmed bullhead
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- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderPerciformes
- FamilyAgonidae
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Agonus is a monospecific genus of ray-finned fish belonging to the subfamily Agoninae in the family Agonidae. Its only species is Agonus cataphractus, commonly known as the hooknose, pogge or armed bullhead. This is a demersal fish found in the coastal waters of the northeastern Atlantic Ocean.
==Taxonomy== Agonus was first proposed as a genus in 1801 by the German naturalists Marcus Elieser Bloch and Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider. Bloch and Schneider classified 4 species in Agonus and in 1814 Tilesius designated Cottus cataphractus as the type species of the genus. Cottus cataphractus was described by Linnaeus in 1758 with a type locality of Europe. The genus Agonus is now regarded as monotypic and is classified within the subfamily Agoninae in the family Agonidae.