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Sebastidae
blue-mouth
Helicolenus dactylopterus
Deep sea ovoviviparous
- Black
- Blue
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Africa
- Europe
- North America
- South America
- Fusiform
- Medium
Black
Regional distribution
Fusiform
Mediumblue-mouth is known around Western Atlantic as a marine fish; It occurs in deep water, and the largest recorded length is 50 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Perches and Allies
- Family
- Sebastidae
- Genus
- Helicolenus
- Maximum length
- 50 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Nova Scotia, Canada to Venezuela. Eastern Atlantic: Iceland (Ref. 12462 ) and Norway to the Mediterranean and the Gulf of Guinea, including Madeira, the Azores, and the Canary Islands; also Walvis Bay, Namibia to Natal, South Africa (Ref. 4313 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Water
Conservation status
