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Macrourus berglax

Macrourid Fish Reaching One Hundred Ten Centimeters

Temperate
Northern Hemisphere
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Atlantic Ocean
Europe
North America
Elongated
Large
Temperate fish

Macrourus berglax, also known as the roughhead grenadier or onion-eye grenadier, is a species of marine ray-finned fish in the family Macrouridae. It is a deep-sea fish found in the Atlantic Ocean.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Cods and Hakes
Family: Macrouridae
Genus: Macrourus
Maximum length: 110 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: elongated
Distribution: North Atlantic: Norfolk Canyon and George Bank north to Labrador, Davis Strait, eastern and western Greenland, Iceland, and from the Irish Atlantic slope north to Faeroe Islands, Norwegian coast, to Spitzbergen, and to the Barents Sea.

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