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Notacanthidae
spiny eel
Notacanthus chemnitzii
One Hundred Twenty Centimeters Eel from the Eastern Indian Ocean
- Gray
- Northern Hemisphere
- Southern Hemisphere
- Transcontinental
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Europe
- North America
- Oceania
- Elongated
- Large
Gray
Northern Hemisphere
Africa
Elongated
Largespiny eel is a marine fish found around Western North Atlantic. It inhabits marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 120 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Notacanthidae
- Genus
- Notacanthus
- Maximum length
- 120 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Western North Atlantic: from Labrador to the Gulf of Mexico; Eastern North Atlantic from Iceland and Norway to North Africa (Ref. 130977 ). Possible in the eastern Indian Ocean: Australia (Ref. 7300 ) and southwest Pacific: New Zealand (Ref. 5755 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
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