| Macrouridae (Grenadiers or rattails) |
| 14 cm TL (male/unsexed) |
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bathydemersal; marine; depth range 220 - 810 m |
| Western Pacific: southern Japan to the Philippines. |
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This species is distinguished by the following characters: pelvic fin rays 11 (rarely 12); pectoral fin rays 13-15; projecting snout, 20-25% HL; no barbel; moderate orbit diameter, 30-33% HL; infraorbital width 13-15% HL; moderately long preopercular supporter, with obtuse angle at rear margin, 3-5% HL; 20-26 gill rakers; ventral striae reaching to ½ distance from pelvic fin bases to periproct; otolith has moderately high predorsal lobe, with colliculi separated, widely placed across collum, terminating at some distance from anterior and posterior rims of otolith; otolith length to height (OL:OH), 1.05-1.1; total colliculum length to pseudocolliculum length (TCL:PCL), 2.4-2.6 (Ref. 98298). |
| Minimum depth from Ref. 26282. |
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Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. (130435)
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| harmless |
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Known from the Kyushu-Palau Ridge, Philippine Sea (Ref. 9949). Collected during the Hearst Expedition 2011 done off Batangas and Mindoro, off SW Luzon, otter trawl in 454-457 m (Ref. 95664). |
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