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Bregmacerotidae
Smallscale codlet
Bregmaceros nectabanus
Seven Point Six Centimeters Bregmacerotid Fish
Smallscale codlet is a marine fish of Western Atlantic. The species occupies marine waters. The largest recorded length is 7.6 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Cods and Hakes
- Family
- Bregmacerotidae
- Genus
- Bregmaceros
- Maximum length
- 7.6 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: southeast Caribbean (Ref. 4496 ). Eastern Atlantic: Morocco to Namibia; reported from the Cape, South Africa (Ref. 4096 ). Mediterranean Sea: Lessepsian migrant (Ref. 85575 ). Indian Ocean and tropical western Pacific to Fiji (Ref. 4496 ). The species has been misidentified as Bregmaceros atlanticus in all previous reports in the Mediiterranean Sea before 2017 (Ref. 85575 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

