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,
Flat Islands (Antarctica) Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) recommended in 1958 that the descriptive name Flat Islands be applied for the entire group. The group is made up of Stinear Island and Béchervaise Island, amongst others. Flat Islands (Antarctica) The Flat Islands or Flatøyholmane are a small chain of islands which extends in a northeast-southwest direction, lying about north-west of Mawson Station and southwest of Welch Island in the eastern part of Holme Bay. The Flat Islands were mapped by Norwegian cartographers from air photos taken by the Lars Christensen Expedition (1936-1937) and the name Flatøyholmane (the flat island islets) was applied