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Tucker's frostfish (Benthodesmus tuckeri)
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Tucker's frostfish (Benthodesmus tuckeri) specimen
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Trichiuridae

Tucker's frostfish

Benthodesmus tuckeri

Silver ribbon spanning five to eight hundred meters

  • Regional distribution
  • Marine fish
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Africa
  • Oceania
  • Southeast Asia
  • Anguilliform
  • Compressed cross-section
  • Large

Tucker's frostfish is known around Indo-West Pacific as a marine fish; It occurs in deep water, and the species reaches a recorded maximum of 77 cm.

Maximum length
77 cm
Water
Marine
Body shape
anguilliform
Distribution
Indo-West Pacific: Philippines, Viet Nam, Molucca Islands and southeastern Australia to Socotra Island, Saya de Malha Bank, Mozambique Channel, off Natal (Ref. 11228 ) and south of Java.

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