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Alepisauridae
North Pacific daggertooth
Anotopterus nikparini
Stretching body walls swallow prey half its length
- Temperate
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Pacific Ocean
- East Asia
- Anguilliform
- Compressed cross-section
- Large
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Anguilliform
LargeThe North Pacific Daggertooth, Anotopterus nikparini is a species of fish in the family Anotopteridae, the daggertooths. It is native to the northern Pacific Ocean, where it occurs as far north as the Bering Sea and as far south as Japan and Baja California.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Alepisauridae
- Genus
- Anotopterus
- Maximum length
- 146 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- North Pacific: Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska; south in Pacific waters to about 25°N, south of Baja California and Japan.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
