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Melamphaidae
Ridgehead
Melamphaes microps
Nine Point Six Centimeters Melamphaid Fish
- Circumpolar Antarctic
- Northern Hemisphere
- Southern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Indian Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- North America
- Oceania
- Polar regions
- Fusiform
- Small
Circumpolar Antarctic
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Fusiform
SmallRidgehead is a marine fish found around Antitropical. It inhabits deep water. Records give a maximum length of 9.6 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Melamphaidae
- Genus
- Melamphaes
- Maximum length
- 9.6 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- fusiform
- Distribution
- Antitropical. South Atlantic: between 27°S and 46°S (off southwest tip of Africa); southern Indian Ocean, western south Pacific off New Zealand, eastern south Pacific (Ref. 51657 ). The holotype was caught in the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean east of the Kara Dag Seamount. Northwest Atlantic: Canada (Ref. 5951 ). North Atlantic (between 30°N and 60°N) specimens are probable variants of M. falsidicus (Ref. 87970 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
