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Berycidae
alfonsino
Beryx decadactylus
A deep fish of warm seas worldwide
- Yellow
- Cross-climate
- Temperate
- Tropical
- Globally widespread
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- East Asia
- Europe
- North America
- Oceania
- South America
- Fusiform
- Compressed cross-section
- Large
Yellow
Cross-climate
Africa
Fusiform
Largealfonsino is known from Worldwide in temperate and tropical latitudes, except the eastern as a marine fish. It occurs in deep water.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Berycidae
- Genus
- Beryx
- Maximum length
- 100 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Worldwide in temperate and tropical latitudes, except the eastern Pacific. Eastern Atlantic: Greenland, Iceland, and Norway to Western Sahara and South Africa, including western Mediterranean. Western Atlantic: south to Brazil. Also found in Argentine (Ref. 2806 ). Indo-Pacific: East Africa (including the Madascar Ridge and Saya de Malha Bank, Ref. 33390 ) to Japan, Australia, and New Zealand (Ref. 5755 ). The limited number of records in the western Pacific is doubtless the result of limited fishing effort below 200 m (Ref. 9833 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
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