northern smoothtongue

Leuroglossus schmidti

Twenty Centimeters Bathylagid Fish

northern smoothtongue is a marine fish found around North Pacific. It inhabits deep water. The species reaches a recorded maximum of 20 cm.

Class: Teleosts
Order: Marine Smelts
Family: Bathylagidae
Genus: Leuroglossus
Maximum length: 20 cm
Water: Marine
Body shape: elongated
Distribution: North Pacific: southeastern Hokkaido, Japan to Navarin Canyon in the Bering Sea and southern British Columbia, Canada. Possibly in Kamchatka (Ref. 6885 ). Regarded as a subspecies of Leuroglossus stilbius , Gilbert 1890 but Peden (1981) presented evidence for separating the two and Dunn (1983) placed them in the genus Leuroglossus .

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