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Acanthonidae
bony-eared assfish
Acanthonus armatus
A huge head and slender body at four thousand meters
- Cross-climate
- Subtropical
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Africa
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- South Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Medium
Cross-climate
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Mediumbony-eared assfish is a marine fish of depths around four thousand meters. An enormous head tapers abruptly into a long, slender body and tail.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Cusk-eels
- Family
- Acanthonidae
- Genus
- Acanthonus
- Maximum length
- 37.5 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Distribution
- In deep waters off tropical and subtropical areas of all oceans. Especially abundant in the tropical western Atlantic (Ref. 3686 ). Reported from Carlsberg Ridge (6°22'N 60°12'E) and New Guinea (Ref. 33390 ). Known from Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, southern India, Philippines, Gulf of Panama and tropical west Africa (Ref. 44076 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
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Order
Family
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