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Trachipteridae
Blackflash ribbonfish
Trachipterus jacksonensis
Trachipterid Fish beneath Australian Waters
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.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Trachipteridae
- Genus
- Trachipterus
- 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

