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Ophididae

Description

Family Ophididae

Spectrunculus grandis (Günther, 1877) —Pudgy cusk eel (Fig. 19)

One specimen of 55 cm TL was caught at a depth of 1,809 m. Habitat and Distribution: bathydemersal; depth range 800–4,300 m, usually 2,000–3,000 m. Widely distributed in all oceans, between 57°N and 59°S. Vulnerability: DD (IUCN), HHV (FishBase).

Notes

Published as part of Bañon, Rafael, Arronte, Juan Carlos, Rodriguez-Cabello, Cristina, Piñeiro, Carmen-Gloria, Punzon, Antonio & Serrano, Alberto, 2016, Commented checklist of marine fishes from the Galicia Bank seamount (NW Spain), pp. 293-333 in Zootaxa 4067 (3) on page 317, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/256670

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Order
Ophidiiformes
Family
Ophididae
Taxon rank
family