Antigonia Lowe, 1843
Diagnosis: body very deep, almost rhomboidal, strongly compressed, its depth less than one and a quarter times in SL. Eye large, snout shorter than eye, head profile concave over eye but convex behind it; mouth moderately protractile. Pectoral fins rounded, pelvic fins behind pectoral base, with I + 5 finrays (reaching beyond anal fin spines), dorsal fin with VII-VIII + 32-36 finrays, the spines long and strong; anal fin with III + 31-34 finrays, the spines stout and short; third dorsal and first anal spines distinctly longer than others. Body covered with small, rough (ctenoid) scales. Colour: body reddish or pink. Size: to 30 cm SL, usually 6-15 cm.
Habitat: close to bottom at 60-600 m, mainly at 100-300 m, juveniles in midwater; gregarious. Food: molluscs, gastropods, cephalopods (tropical parts of eastern Atlantic at 9° N). Reproduction: during summer (tropical parts of eastern Atlantic).
Distribution: Madeira, the Azores. Elsewhere, southward from Cape Blanc to Congo estuary, also tropical parts of western Atlantic; (?) also Indo-Pacific region.
Species 11-13; in Clofnam area 1.
Species of this genus in the program:
Antigonia capros