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Psychrolutidae
blobfish
Psychrolutes marcidus
Psychrolutid Fish beneath Australian Waters
- Continental endemic
- Southern Hemisphere
- Local endemic species
- Restricted distribution
- Marine fish
- Pacific Ocean
- Oceania
- Medium
Continental endemic
Restricted distribution
Marine fish
Mediumblobfish is known from Southwest Pacific as a marine fish. It occurs in deep water.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Perches and Allies
- Family
- Psychrolutidae
- Genus
- Psychrolutes
- Maximum length
- 30 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Distribution
- Southwest Pacific: Endemic to Australia (off Broken Bay, New South Wales (33°34'S) to off southern Australia, including Tasmania).
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