| Macrouridae (Grenadiers or rattails) |
| 50 cm TL (male/unsexed) |
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bathydemersal; marine; depth range 73 - 1086 m, non-migratory |
| Southern Atlantic, Indian and Pacific: southern Africa, southern tip of South America, , southern Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand. |
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Dorsal spines (total): 2-2; Dorsal soft rays (total): 113-122; Anal spines: 0-0; Anal soft rays: 90. The head is relatively large; the eyes also large. Body tapers abruptly behind the first dorsal fin. Color is swarthy overall, pale ventrally. Back with 8 - 10 broad saddles or bars extending slightly below the lateral line. The fins are dusky except for the whitish outermost pelvic ray. The mouth and gill cavities gray to black. |
| Feeds mainly on copepods, polychaetes, benthic mollusks, arthropods, decapods and amphipods, echinoderms and fishes (myctophids and Maurolicus). |
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Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. (130435)
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| harmless |
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