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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).
The species in the genus Macrourus have large broad heads which are over four times as deep as they are long with a snout which varies from rounded to bluntly pointed, with a substantial modified spiny scale at its tip. They have a strong, suborbital ridge that extends onto preopercle and ends with a sharp point. The eyes have a diameter of ...
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Macrouridae is a family of deep sea fish, a diverse and ecologically important group, [2] which are part of the order of cod-like fish, the Gadiformes.The species in the Macrouridae are characterised by their large heads [3] which normally have a single barbel on the chin, [4] projecting snouts, and slender bodies that taper to whip-like tails, without an obvious caudal fin [3] but what there ...
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Trachyrincinae is a subfamily of the family Macrouridae, also known as rattails. The subfamily contains two genera found in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean. These species lives in deep-water. These fishes have a long, narrow and sharply pointed snout. The chin barbel is present. [1]
The graceful grenadier (Hymenogadus gracilis) is a species of rattail fish. It is found at depths of 160–345 m (525–1,132 ft) in tropical and subtropical seas worldwide. [ 1 ] This is one of the smallest of the rattails, growing to no more than 13 cm (5.1 in) in length.