slender blacksmelt

Bathylagus pacificus

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slender blacksmelt is a migratory fish of Pacific. The species occupies deep water. The largest recorded length is 25 cm.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Marine Smelts
Family: Bathylagidae
Genus: Bathylagus
Maximum length: 25 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: fusiform
Distribution: Pacific: off the Pacific coast of northern Japan and the Bering Sea to the Gulf of Alaska southward to northern Baja California, Mexico.

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