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Alepocephalidae
Small scaled brown slickhead
Alepocephalus australis
Below warm and temperate seas to two thousand meters
- Black
- Brown
- Cross-climate
- Temperate
- Tropical
- Southern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Elongated
- Large
Black
Cross-climate
Regional distribution
Elongated
LargeSmall scaled brown slickhead is known around Circumglobal as a marine fish; It occurs in deep water, and the largest recorded length is 69 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Alepocephalidae
- Genus
- Alepocephalus
- Maximum length
- 69 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Circumglobal: In tropical to temperate waters. Eastern Central Atlantic: possibly widely distributed from the Gulf of Guinea to South Africa. Western Atlantic: At about 39° to 10°N. Southwest Pacific.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
