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The Spotfin Dragonet

Spotfin Dragonet is a western Atlantic bottom-associated fish recorded over sand and mud. Its range includes continental shelf regions from Canada toward northern South America.

Range and Identity

Foetorepus agassizii is recorded from the Canadian Scotian Shelf southward to waters just north of the Amazon mouth. This broad shelf-region outline should not be treated as uniform occupancy of every coastal bay or shallow beach along the route.

Habitat and Behavior

The checked habitat account identifies muddy and sandy bottom. It does not supply a complete species-specific feeding list or establish one preferred depth throughout the range. Those details are not imported from a different dragonet merely because the fishes share a similar form.

Food and Life History

The maximum reference is 24.3 centimeters total length. The descriptive account does not identify the venom-gland structures sometimes associated with assumptions about spiny marine fishes. An independent maximum weight and detailed reproductive calendar are not established.

Field Note

Include depth and substrate with identification photographs. These observations give a bottom-fish record useful environmental context without turning an unverified family-level assumption into a claim about this species.

All Lakes With Spotfin Dragonet

Browse all lakes and reservoirs with confirmed Spotfin Dragonet records in our database, listed alphabetically.

No published lakes are currently linked to this species in our confirmed records.

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