Alligatorfish maximum total length of 22 centimetres, but more commonly reach a TL of 14.2 cm. The Alligatorfish is preyed on by the Atlantic halibut ("Hippoglossus hippoglossus") and the Pacific halibut ("Hippoglossus stenolepis"). Its own diet consists primarily of benthic crustaceans and bottom fauna. Alligatorfish The Alligatorfish (Aspidophoroides monopterygius, also known commonly as the Aleutian alligatorfish and the Atlantic alligatorfish) is a fish in the family Agonidae (poachers). It was described by Marcus Elieser Bloch in 1786. It is a marine, temperate water-dwelling fish which is known from the northwestern Atlantic Ocean, including western Greenland; Labrador, Canada; and Cape Cod, Massachusetts,
The Heron and the Fish Fontaine" (2004), where it was choreographed by Satchie Noro and included among the four segments in the film version directed by Marie-Hélène Rebois. The Heron and the Fish The Heron and the Fish is a situational fable constructed to illustrate the moral that one should not be over-fastidious in making choices since, as the ancient proverb proposes, 'He that will not when he may, when he will he shall have nay'. The first occurrence of the fable about the fastidious heron occurs in a late Mediaeval manuscript of Latin prose fables called "Opusculum fabularum" (little collection of fables), which claims