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Phosichthyidae
Silver lightfish
Phosichthys argenteus
Thirty Centimeters Phosichthyid Fish from the Pacific Ocean
- Silver
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Elongated
- Medium
Silver
Regional distribution
Elongated
MediumSilver lightfish is a marine fish from Eastern Atlantic. It inhabits deep water. The largest recorded length is 30 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Phosichthyidae
- Genus
- Phosichthys
- Maximum length
- 30 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Eastern Atlantic: off Angola (Ref. 4470 ), Namibia (Ref. 27121 ), and southeast of Cape Agulhas, South Africa (Ref. 3988 ). Also Indian and Pacific (Ref. 3988 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Water
Conservation status
