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Sternoptychidae
Spiny hatchetfish
Polyipnus spinosus
Deep Bodied Sternoptychid Fish of the South China Sea
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Pacific Ocean
- East Asia
- Southeast Asia
- Deep-bodied
- Small
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Deep-bodied
SmallSpiny hatchetfish is known around Western Cental Pacific as a marine fish; It occurs in marine waters, and records give a maximum length of 8.5 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Sternoptychidae
- Genus
- Polyipnus
- Maximum length
- 8.5 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Western Cental Pacific: Celebes and Halmahera seas and the Philippines. South China Sea, East China Sea, and the water near Taiwan (Ref.74511).
- Conservation status
- DDData Deficient
Class
Family
Water
Conservation status
