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Sternoptychidae
three-spined hatchetfish
Polyipnus spinifer
Six Centimeters Sternoptychid Fish of Japanese Waters
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Pacific Ocean
- East Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Deep-bodied
- Small
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Deep-bodied
Smallthree-spined hatchetfish is a marine fish from Western Pacific. It inhabits marine waters. Records give a maximum length of 6 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Sternoptychidae
- Genus
- Polyipnus
- Maximum length
- 6 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Western Pacific: Suruga Bay (Japan), the East China Sea and off the Philippines in the South China and Sulu seas.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Water
Conservation status
