Notacanthus chemnitzii Bloch 1788
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Notacanthiformes
- family
- Notacanthidae
- genus
- Notacanthus
- species
- Notacanthus chemnitzii
description
Snubnosed Spiny Eel. To 135 cm (54 in) TL (Mecklenburg et al. 2018). Probably circumglobal; Greenland (Okamura and Takahashi in Okamura et al. 1995); western Pacific Ocean off Japan (Yabe in Amaoka et al. 1983); Sea of Okhotsk (Orlov 1998); northern Bering Sea (59 ° 22 ’ N, 178 ° 28 ’ W) (Maslenikov et al. 2013) to Chile (Pequeño 1989). Benthopelagic; depth: 126 – 3,285 m (413 – 10,775 ft) (min.: Orlov and Tokranov 2019; max.: Yabe in Amaoka et al. 1983); usually taken at the greater depths (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Either a single species with some intraspecific variation (Mecklenburg et al. 2018) or a species complex (Robertson et al. 2017).
Name
- Homonyms
- Notacanthus chemnitzii Bloch 1788