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Trachipteridae
polka-dot ribbonfish
Desmodema polystictum
Trachipterid Fish from Five Hundred Meters
- Globally widespread
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Central America and the Caribbean
- East Asia
- North America
- Oceania
- South Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Elongated
- Large
Globally widespread
Marine fish
Africa
Elongated
Largepolka-dot ribbonfish is a marine fish of Western Pacific. The species occupies deep water. Records give a maximum length of 110 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Trachipteridae
- Genus
- Desmodema
- Maximum length
- 110 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Western Pacific: Japan, Taiwan (Ref. 5193 ), Philippines, Australia, New Zealand (Ref. 5755 ). Eastern Atlantic: 16°11'N (ISH unpublished) to Namibia (Ref. 4506 ) and South Africa (one specimen washed ashore at Xora River and 1 found in the tide pool at Simonstown, False Bay). Western Atlantic: Florida, USA and Cuba (Ref. 7251 ). Northern Indian Ocean: 2 records from Pakistan and India (Ref. 93850 ; Ref. 93851 ). Probably circumtropical.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
