| Macrouridae (Grenadiers or rattails) |
| 66 cm TL (male/unsexed); max.weight: 550.0 g; max. reported age: 10 years |
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bathydemersal; marine; depth range 150 - 3500 m, non-migratory |
| North Pacific: northern Japan to Sea of Okhotsk, Bering Sea and south to Oregon, USA. |
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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. |
| Feeds mainly on pelagic forms (Ref. 1371). Too small for fresh consumption (Ref. 1371). |
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Not Evaluated (N.E.) Ref. (130435)
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| harmless |
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Found on the Navarin Canyon (Ref. 6793). 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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