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Diplophidae
Pacific portholefish
Diplophos taenia
Twenty Seven Point Six Centimeters Diplophid Fish from Indo Pacific
Pacific portholefish is known from Cosmopolitan as a marine fish. It occurs in marine waters.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Diplophidae
- Genus
- Diplophos
- Maximum length
- 27.6 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- anguilliform
- Distribution
- Cosmopolitan. Eastern Atlantic: Portugal (Ref. 4769 ) south to Gulf of Guinea (Ref. 4463 ); Namibia and South Africa (Ref. 3991 ). Northwest Atlantic: Canada (Ref. 5951 ). Western Atlantic and Indo-Pacific: in tropical and subtropical waters. Eastern Pacific: California Current region (Ref. 35800 ); Chile (Ref. 9068 ). South China Sea (Ref.74511).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

