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Platytroctidae
bighead searsid
Holtbyrnia anomala
Twenty Five Centimeters Platytroctid Fish of the Atlantic Ocean
bighead searsid is a marine fish found around Eastern Atlantic. It inhabits deep water. The species reaches a recorded maximum of 25 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Platytroctidae
- Genus
- Holtbyrnia
- Maximum length
- 25 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Distribution
- Eastern Atlantic: west of Iceland to off south-western tip of Ireland, Mauritania, Senegal and Namibia. Elsewhere, tropical and subtropical western Atlantic.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern

