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Melamphaidae
Shoulderspine bigscale
Melamphaes suborbitalis
Brown mouth within angular head
- Northern Hemisphere
- Transcontinental
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Europe
- South America
- Fusiform
- Small
Northern Hemisphere
Marine fish
Africa
Fusiform
SmallShoulderspine bigscale is a marine fish of North Atlantic. The species occupies deep water. Records give a maximum length of 10.6 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Melamphaidae
- Genus
- Melamphaes
- Maximum length
- 10.6 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- North Atlantic: off the American, European and African coasts; central part of the Ocean - above the Corner Ridge and North-Atlantic Ridge (northern most 57°46'N, 11°05'W). South Atlantc: Vema Seamount, Argentina to South Africa (northern most 18°39'S, 04°16'W, all other catches up to 40°S. Indian Ocean: off South Africa, Madagascar and Mozambique ridges. Pacific: Northwest - off Nampo Is. And Ogasawara (Bonin); Northeast - off California; Southwest - Tasman Sea.
- Conservation status
- DDData Deficient
Class
Family
Conservation status
