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Coelorinchus vityazae Iwamoto, Shcherbachev & Marquardt, 2004 |
| Family: | Macrouridae (Grenadiers or rattails) | |||
| Max. size: | 32 cm TL (male/unsexed) | |||
| Environment: | bathypelagic; marine; depth range - 920 m | |||
| Distribution: | South Atlantic: Endemic to the West Wind Drift Islands Province; Bank Gulf and Discovery Tablemount in the South Atlantic, and Walters Shoals and St. Paul and Amsterdam islands in the western Indian Ocean. | |||
| Diagnosis: | Dorsal spines (total): 2-2; Dorsal soft rays (total): 8-10. This species has the following combination of characters: snout moderate (orbit diameter 0.88-1.16 into snout length), tipped with a sharp terminal scute, area dorsally behind leading edge of snout fully scaled, anterolateral margin of snout incompletely supported by bone; underside of head naked; body scales between origin of second dorsal fin and lateral line with 9-13 parallel rows of small, slender spinules; anterior dermal window of light organ short, extending forward about midway between anal-fin origin and pelvic-fin insertion; swim bladder deeply bilobed anteriorly; a distinctive banding pattern along body (Ref. 58387). | |||
| Biology: | ||||
| IUCN Red List Status: | Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. (130435) | |||
| Threat to humans: | harmless | |||