| Macrouridae (Grenadiers or rattails) |
| 210 cm TL (male/unsexed); max.weight: 86 kg; max. reported age: 56 years |
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bathydemersal; marine; depth range 140 - 3500 m, non-migratory |
| North Pacific: northern Japan to the Okhotsk and Bering seas, east to the Gulf of Alaska, south to northern Baja California in Mexico. |
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Dorsal spines (total): 2-2; Dorsal soft rays (total): 7-9; Anal spines: 0-0; Anal soft rays: 131. Snout low, slightly protruding beyond the large mouth, without a spinous terminal scute. Scales small, slightly oblong, with moderate-sized median ridge, without spines or with few weak spinules, and 0 to 5 much lower, non-spinulated ridges laterally on exposed field. Swim bladder small, with 2 retia mirabilia. Gray-brown on head and body, each scale with a prominent dark posterior border, fins and lateral line darker; black in mouth, gill cavity, and on peritoneum (Ref. 6885). Branchiostegal rays: 6-6; pyloric caeca: 12-16; |
| Young apparently bathypelagic to some degree but become bathydemersal at a size of 50-60 cm (Ref. 1371). Adults feed mainly on cephalopods, fish and shrimps; other food items include ctenophores, echinoderms, worms, crabs, and amphipods (Ref. 1371). Oviparous, with planktonic larvae (Ref. 36385). |
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Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. (130435)
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| harmless |
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Occurs in Navarin Canyon on the northwestern slope of the eastern Bering Sea (Ref. 6793) and off Kamchatka (Ref. 6885). Collected from the Sea of Okhotsk in southeastern and southwestern Aademy Sciences USSR Ridge on the northern slope of the deepwater Kurile Trench (Ref. 41724). |
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