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Agassiz' smoothhead (Alepocephalus agassizii)
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Agassiz' smoothhead (Alepocephalus agassizii) specimen
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Alepocephalidae

Agassiz' smoothhead

Alepocephalus agassizii

Deep shoals pursue comb jellies

  • Black
  • Regional distribution
  • Marine fish
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Africa
  • Central America and the Caribbean
  • Europe
  • North America
  • Large

Agassiz' smoothhead is known around Eastern Atlantic as a marine fish; It occurs in deep water, and records give a maximum length of 123 cm.

Maximum length
123 cm
Water
Marine
Distribution
Eastern Atlantic: Iceland and Greenland, west of British Isles, Morocco south to Mauritania. Western Atlantic: Davis Strait south to Honduras.
Conservation status
LCLeast Concern

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