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The deepwater grenadier is very large for its genus, measuring up to 129 cm (4.23 ft) and 14 kg (31 lb). [8] Olfaction and taste are important senses for finding prey, which is unsurprising as it lives in the near-total darkness of the deep sea. [9] [8] It has a swim bladder, showing that it is a mobile forager. [10]
The roundnose grenadier is a deep water fish sometimes reaching over a metre (yard) in length. The rounded head is large with a broad snout, the abdomen small and the tail long and tapering to a pointed tip. At the front of the snout there is a blunt, tube-like scute or scale and there is a small barbel under the chin.
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).
Macrourus berglax, also known as the roughhead grenadier or onion-eye grenadier, is a species of marine ray-finned fish in the family Macrouridae. It is a deep-water fish found in the Atlantic Ocean .
Coryphaenoides myersi Iwamoto & Sazonov, 1988 (Myers' grenadier) Coryphaenoides nasutus Günther, 1877 (Large-nose grenadier) Coryphaenoides oreinos Iwamoto & Sazonov, 1988; Coryphaenoides orthogrammus (H. M. Smith & Radcliffe, 1912) Coryphaenoides paramarshalli Merrett, 1983; Coryphaenoides profundicolus (Nybelin, 1957) (Deep-water grenadier)
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.
The abyssal grenadier, Coryphaenoides armatus, is an abyssal fish of the genus Coryphaenoides, found in all the world's oceans, at depths between 800 and 4,000 metres (2,600 and 13,100 ft). Its adult length is 20 to 40 centimetres (8 to 16 in), although Fishbase [ 2 ] gives lengths up to 1 metre (3 ft 3 in).
The plainfin grenadier (Ventrifossa divergens) is a species of rattail. This is a deep-water fish found at depths of up to 772 m. This is a deep-water fish found at depths of up to 772 m. [ citation needed ] It has a wide distribution in the Indian and western Pacific Oceans.