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Parazenidae
red dory
Cyttopsis rosea
Protrusible mouth flexible pelvic spine
red dory is a marine fish found around Western Atlantic. It inhabits deep water. Records give a maximum length of 31 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Dories
- Family
- Parazenidae
- Genus
- Cyttopsis
- Maximum length
- 31 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Western Atlantic: Canada (Ref. 5951 ) to southeastern USA and northern Gulf of Mexico to western Caribbean (Ref. 7251 ); northern coast of South America (Ref. 5217 ). Eastern Atlantic: Bay of Biscay round the South African coast to Natal. Indian Ocean: Somalia (Ref. 30573 ) and off the south-west coast of India. Western Pacific: off Japan, eastern Australia (Ref. 7300 ) and New Zealand (Ref. 5755 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

