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Dinematichthyidae
Shaggy cusk
Porocephalichthys dasyrhynchus
Sharp spine on the opercle
Shaggy cusk is a marine fish from Eastern Indian Ocean. It inhabits deep water. Records give a maximum length of 13.6 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Cusk-eels
- Family
- Dinematichthyidae
- Genus
- Porocephalichthys
- Maximum length
- 13.6 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Eastern Indian Ocean: Rottnest Island, Australia.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

