Zoarces americanus és una espècie de peix de la família dels zoàrcids i de l'ordre dels perciformes.The Taxonomicon
Morfologia Els mascles poden assolir 110 cm de longitud totalRobins, C.R. i G.C. Ray, 1986. A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Estats Units. 354 p. i 5.436 g de pes.Leim, A.H. i W.B. Scott, 1966. Fishes of the Atlantic coast of Canada. Bull. Fish. Res. Board Can. (155):485 p.FishBase
Alimentació Menja cucs, crustacis, mol·luscs, eriçons de mar, peixos i ascidis.Coad, B.W. i J.D. Reist, 2004. Annotated list of the arctic marine fishes of Canada. Can. MS Rep. Fish Aquat. Sci. 2674:iv:+112 p.
Depredadors Als Estats Units és depredat pel bacallà (Gadus morhua), el llobarro atlàntic ratllat (Morone saxatilis), el tallahams (Pomatomus saltatrix),Buckel, J.A., M.J. Fogarty i D.O. Conover, 1999. Foraging habits of bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix, on the U.S. east coast continental shelf. Fish. Bull. 97:758-775. el tauró gris (Carcharhinus plumbeus)Stillwell, C.E. i N.E. Kohler, 1993. Food habits of the sandbar shark Carcharhinus plumbeus off the U.S. northeast coast, with estimates of daily ration. Fish. Bull. 91:138-150. i el solraig (Isurus oxyrinchus).Stillwell, C.E. i N.E. Kohler, 1982. Food, feeding habits, and estimates of daily ration of the shortfin mako (Isurus oxyrinchus) in the Northwest Atlantic. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 39(3):407-414.FishBase
Hàbitat És un peix de clima temperat i demersal que viu entre 0-388 m de fondària.Coad, B.W. i J.D. Reist, 2004.
Distribució geogràfica Es troba a l'Atlàntic nord-occidental: des de Labrador (el Canadà) fins a Delaware (Estats Units).Andriyashev, A.P. i N.V. Chernova, 1995. Annotated list of fishlike vertebrates and fish of the arctic seas and adjacent waters. J. Ichthyol. 35(1):81-123.Coad, B.W., 1995. Encyclopedia of Canadian fishes. Canadian Museum of Nature and Canadian Sportfishing Productions Inc. Singapur.Hacunda, J.S., 1981. Trophic relationships among demersal fishes in a coastal area of the Gulf of Maine. Fish. Bull. 79(4):775-788.Scott, W.B. i M.G. Scott, 1988. Atlantic fishes of Canada. Can. Bull. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 219: 731 p.
Costums És de costums bentònics.
Observacions És inofensiu per als humans.
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