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Gonostomatidae
Slender fangjaw
Sigmops gracilis
Gonostomatid Fish Reaching Thirteen Point Three Centimeters
Slender fangjaw is known around Pacific Ocean as a marine fish; It occurs in marine waters, and the largest recorded length is 13.3 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Gonostomatidae
- Genus
- Sigmops
- Maximum length
- 13.3 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Pacific Ocean: widely distributed in subarctic to subtropical waters, mainly west of 143°W and north of 15°N. Most abundant in the northwest Pacific between the southern Kuril Islands and Taiwan. South China Sea and East China Sea (Ref.74511).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

