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The roughhead grenadier feeds on crustaceans and other small invertebrates it finds on the seabed. The diet includes small fish, shrimps, amphipods, polychaete worms, bivalve molluscs, isopods, brittle stars, other echinoderms and comb jellies. [3] [6] The roughhead grenadier is a slow growing fish.
Their maximum size is probably around 100 centimeters (39 inches). ... (34 and 39 °F), although one species, the Antarctic roughhead ... 1878 (Bigeye grenadier ...
The roughnose grenadier (Trachyrincus murrayi) is a species of fish in the subfamily Macrourinae (rat-tails). [3] [4] The species is named for Sir John Murray. [5]
The ridge scaled rattail [2] or ridge-scaled grenadier, [3] Macrourus carinatus, is a species of deep-water fish in the family Macrouridae. [1] [2] It has southern circumglobal distribution in temperate to subantarctic waters (34°S–65°S) and is found in the Southern Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans and in the Southern Ocean [1] [2] at depths of about 200–1,200 m (660–3,940 ft).
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Coelorinchus kamoharai Matsubara, 1943 (Kamohara's grenadier) Coelorinchus karrerae Trunov, 1984 (Karrer's whiptail) Coelorinchus kermadecus D. S. Jordan & C. H. Gilbert, 1904 (Kermadec rattail) Coelorinchus kishinouyei D. S. Jordan & Snyder, 1900 (Mugura grenadier) Coelorinchus labiatus (Koehler, 1896) (Spear-snouted grenadier)
The roundnose grenadier sometimes forms dense shoals at depths of about 600 to 900 metres (2,000 to 3,000 ft). [4] It makes a daily vertical migration, returning later to the seabed where it feeds on small invertebrates including shrimps , amphipods and cumaceans , and to a lesser extent, cephalopods and various fishes, including lanternfishes ...
The rough abyssal grenadier is an active benthic forager, with a diet that features a variety of seafloor fauna. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Squids , crustaceans , and polychaetes comprise the most consistent sources of prey for C. yaquinae , though stomach content analyses have revealed echinoderms , fish , and food scavenged from carrion . [ 5 ]