Coryphaenoides carapinus, Carapine grenadier

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Coryphaenoides carapinus Goode & Bean, 1883

Carapine grenadier
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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Gadiformes (Cods) > Macrouridae (Grenadiers or rattails)
Etymology: Coryphaenoides: Greek, koryphaina = dolphin fish + Suffix oides = similar to (Ref. 45335).
More on authors: Goode & Bean.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; bathydemersal; depth range 384 - 5610 m (Ref. 11953). Deep-water; 63°N - 38°S, 76°W - 79°E

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Atlantic Ocean: both sides of the North Atlantic and from the southeast Atlantic. Also known from the southern Indian Ocean.

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?, range 17 - ? cm
Max length : 45.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 26340)

Short description Morphology | Morphometrics

Narrow band of pointed teeth in the premaxillae. Head scaled except for gular and branchiostegal membranes. Body scales either plain or armed with slightly divergent rows of small spinules (Ref. 37108).

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Bathypelagic (Ref. 58426). Feeds on polychaete worms, copepods, amphipods, isopods and mysids (Ref. 6187). Minimum depth from Ref. 58018.

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Main reference Upload your references | References | Coordinator : Iwamoto, Tomio | Collaborators

Iwamoto, T. and E. Anderson, 1994. Review of the grenadiers (Teleostei: Gadiformes) of southern Africa, with descriptions of four new species. Ichthyol. Bull. J.L.B. Smith Inst. Ichthyol. (61):1-28. (Ref. 11953)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435)

  Not Evaluated 

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





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