Malacocephalus laevis (Lowe 1843)
- 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
- Gadiformes
- family
- Macrouridae
- genus
- Malacocephalus
- species
- Malacocephalus laevis
description
Softhead Grenadier or Velvet Grenadier. To 65.5 cm (25.8 in) TL (Tomio Iwamoto, pers. comm. to M. L.). Circumglobal; Point Sur, central California (Hoff 1999) to Baja California (Sazonov and Iwamoto 1992); Chile (Pequeño 1989). Benthopelagic; depth: 50 – 1,200 m (164 – 3,936 ft) (min.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California; max. Pakhorukov 2008). Maximum depth perhaps of a specimen taken in midwaters over deeper waters (Tomio Iwamoto, pers. comm. to M. L.).
Name
- Homonyms
- Malacocephalus laevis (Lowe 1843)