rock grenadier

Coryphaenoides rupestris

Macrourid Fish from Western Atlantic

Northern Hemisphere
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Atlantic Ocean
Africa
Central America and the Caribbean
Europe
North America
Elongated
Large

Coryphaenoides rupestris is a species of marine ray-finned fish in the family Macrouridae. Its common names include the rock grenadier, the roundnose grenadier and the roundhead rat-tail. In France it is known as grenadier de roche and in Spain as granadero de roca.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Cods and Hakes
Family: Macrouridae
Genus: Coryphaenoides
Maximum length: 110 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: elongated
Distribution: North Atlantic: from about 37°N to Baffin Island and Greenland in the western Atlantic, and off Iceland and Norway to 73°N to Barents Sea, south to North Africa in the eastern Atlantic. Reported to occur from the tongue of the Ocean east of Andros Islands (about 24°N, 77°W) in the Bahamas.
Conservation status: CRCritically Endangered

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