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Koefoed's smooth-head (Bathytroctes macrolepis)
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Koefoed's smooth-head (Bathytroctes macrolepis) specimen
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Alepocephalidae

Koefoed's smooth-head

Bathytroctes macrolepis

Reaching forty centimeters nearly six kilometers down

  • Regional distribution
  • Marine fish
  • Atlantic Ocean
  • Indian Ocean
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Elongated
  • Medium

Koefoed's smooth-head is known from Atlantic, Indian and Pacific as a marine fish. It occurs in deep water.

Maximum length
40 cm
Water
Marine
Body shape
elongated
Distribution
Atlantic, Indian and Pacific.
Conservation status
LCLeast Concern

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