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Diretmidae
Longwing spinyfin
Diretmoides pauciradiatus
Diretmid Fish from Six Hundred Meters
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Central America and the Caribbean
- East Asia
- North America
- Oceania
- South America
- Southeast Asia
- Deep-bodied
- Medium
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Deep-bodied
MediumLongwing spinyfin is a marine fish found around Eastern Atlantic. It inhabits deep water. Records give a maximum length of 37 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Roughies and Allies
- Family
- Diretmidae
- Genus
- Diretmoides
- Maximum length
- 37 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Eastern Atlantic: Guinea Bissau to Angola (Ref. 6536 ). Western Atlantic: eastern Florida, Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean and northern Brazil. Indian Ocean: Mozambique, Madagascar, and Western Australia. Pacific: Indonesia, South China Sea, and Kyushu-Palau Ridge (Moore, pers. comm.).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Water
Conservation status
