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Veliferidae
Spinyfin velifer
Metavelifer multiradiatus
Fish Reaching Twenty Eight Centimeters in New Zealand Waters
Spinyfin velifer is a marine fish found around Indo-Pacific. It inhabits deep water. The largest recorded length is 28 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Veliferidae
- Genus
- Metavelifer
- Maximum length
- 28 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Indo-Pacific: off Maputo in Mozambique; also from Australia, New Zealand and Hawaii. Reported from Japan (Ref. 559 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

