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Coryphaenoides cinereus (Gilbert, 1896) Popeye grenadier |
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photo by
Orlov, A. |
| Family: | Macrouridae (Grenadiers or rattails) | |||
| Max. size: | 66 cm TL (male/unsexed); max.weight: 550.0 g; max. reported age: 10 years | |||
| Environment: | bathydemersal; marine; depth range 150 - 3500 m, non-migratory | |||
| Distribution: | North Pacific: northern Japan to Sea of Okhotsk, Bering Sea and south to Oregon, USA. | |||
| Diagnosis: | Dorsal spines (total): 2-2; Anal spines: 0-0. Snout short, blunt, with a broad spinous scute at its tip, its leading edge and most of its underside naked; suborbital shelf very narrow anteriorly; interopercle broadly rounded posteriorly; chin with very short barbel. Scales rather deciduous; body scales with 3 to 10 low, subparallel rows of spinules; gill and gular membranes and interopercle naked. Pyloric caeca short, 5 to 7. Overall color is grayish brown; fins blackish to dusky; oral and gill cavities blackish. | |||
| Biology: | Feeds mainly on pelagic forms (Ref. 1371). Too small for fresh consumption (Ref. 1371). | |||
| IUCN Red List Status: | Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. (130435) | |||
| Threat to humans: | harmless | |||
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