Economic Importance: 



Although this species is edible, it is usually used as a trash species. 

 During 1955, 13,300 pounds of angler fish, valued at $277, were 

 landed as food fish at Rhode Island ports. 



Family Antennariidae 

 Genus Ilistrio 



(214) Histrio pictus (Cuvier and Valenciennes) 1837 

 Sargassum fish, mousefish 



Specimens: 



Tracy (1910) mentions three specimens taken at the mouth of 

 the Sakonnet River, in September, 1904. There is also a specimen 

 at the Narragansett Marine Laboratory taken from off the Rhode 

 Island coast. 



Family Ogcocephalidae 

 Genus Dibranchus 



(215) Dibranchus atlantiens Peters 1875 

 Batfish, seabat 



Specimens: 



A single specimen, captured off Block Island, is reported in Goode 

 and Bean (1895). Specimens from Newport are mentioned in Jordan 

 and Evermann (1896-1900). 



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