Macrouridae

ridge scaled rattail

Macrourus carinatus

One Hundred Centimeters Macrourid Fish from the South African Coast

• Temperate
• Southern Hemisphere
• Transcontinental
• Marine fish
• Atlantic Ocean
• Indian Ocean
• Pacific Ocean
• Africa
• Oceania
• Polar regions
• South America
• Elongated
• Large

The ridge scaled rattail or ridge-scaled grenadier, Macrourus carinatus, is a species of deep-water fish in the family Macrouridae. It has southern circumglobal distribution in temperate to subantarctic waters (34°S–65°S) and is found in the Southern Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans and in the Southern Ocean at depths of about 200–1,200 m (660–3,940 ft).