argentine

Argentina silus

Eggs and young drift five hundred meters down

argentine is a migratory fish found around Eastern Atlantic. It inhabits deep water. The species reaches a recorded maximum of 70 cm.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Marine Smelts
Family: Argentinidae
Genus: Argentina
Maximum length: 70 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: elongated
Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Svalbard to west coasts of Scotland and Ireland, deeper parts of North Sea and across the Wyville Thomson ridge to Denmark Strait. Western Atlantic: Davis Strait to George's Bank in Canada. Arctic Ocean: east to Finnmark, Norway, Barents Sea (Ref. 86838 ).

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