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Trichiuridae
Slender frostfish
Benthodesmus tenuis
Trichiurid Fish beneath Indonesian Waters
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- East Asia
- North America
- South America
- Southeast Asia
- Anguilliform
- Compressed cross-section
- Large
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Anguilliform
LargeSlender frostfish is known around Western Atlantic as a marine fish; It occurs in deep water, and the largest recorded length is 230 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Trichiuridae
- Genus
- Benthodesmus
- Maximum length
- 230 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Canada (Ref. 5951 ), off Cape Hatteras, Gulf of Mexico, Suriname and southern Brazil. Eastern Atlantic: Gulf of Guinea to Angola. Western Indian Ocean: off Natal, South Africa (Ref. 11228 ). Western Pacific: Emperor Seamounts, Japan, Ryukyu Islands, Viet Nam, and the Sulu Sea. Indian Ocean: south of Java, Indonesia. Reported from British Columbia, Canada (Ref. 11980 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Water
Conservation status
