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Alepocephalidae
Loosescale smooth-head
Einara macrolepis
Alepocephalid Fish of Central Pacific
Loosescale smooth-head is a marine fish from Eastern Atlantic. It inhabits deep water. Records give a maximum length of 22 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Alepocephalidae
- Genus
- Einara
- Maximum length
- 22 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Distribution
- Eastern Atlantic: isolated records around Madeira Island and from Morocco south to Angola. Elsewhere, Indian Ocean and eastern Pacific; and probably Western Central Pacific (Ref. 38717 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

