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Blackflash ribbonfish (Trachipterus jacksonensis)
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Blackflash ribbonfish (Trachipterus jacksonensis) specimen
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Trachipteridae

Blackflash ribbonfish

Trachipterus jacksonensis

Trachipterid Fish beneath Australian Waters

  • Black
  • Southern Hemisphere
  • Transcontinental
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Indian Ocean
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Africa
  • Oceania
  • South America
  • Anguilliform
  • Large

Blackflash ribbonfish is known around Western Indian Ocean as a fish; It occurs in deep water, and records give a maximum length of 220 cm.

Maximum length
220 cm
Body shape
anguilliform
Distribution
Western Indian Ocean: South Africa and Reunion. Eastern Indian Ocean: southern Australia. Southwest Pacific: New Zealand. Southwest Atlantic: Brazil and Argentina.
Conservation status
LCLeast Concern

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