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Created 4/18/2020

Family Scorpaenidae

WEST PACIFIC / HAWAII

Pontinus macrocephalus



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 LARGE-HEADED SCORPIONFISH or ROCK COD     nohu

Uncommon from handline fishery at depths exceeding 400 feet.  Orange with long noodle-like appendage above each eye.  Attains 15 inches.  Indonesia to Japan,  Hawai'i, and French Polynesia.