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Trichiuridae
Tucker's frostfish
Benthodesmus tuckeri
Silver ribbon spanning five to eight hundred meters
Tucker's frostfish is known around Indo-West Pacific as a marine fish; It occurs in deep water, and the species reaches a recorded maximum of 77 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Trichiuridae
- Genus
- Benthodesmus
- Maximum length
- 77 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Indo-West Pacific: Philippines, Viet Nam, Molucca Islands and southeastern Australia to Socotra Island, Saya de Malha Bank, Mozambique Channel, off Natal (Ref. 11228 ) and south of Java.

