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Opisthoproctidae
Glasshead barreleye
Rhynchohyalus natalensis
Translucent head flat body
- Tropical
- Transcontinental
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Africa
- Oceania
- Medium
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Marine fish
Africa
MediumGlasshead barreleye is known from Eastern Atlantic as a marine fish. It occurs in deep water.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Marine Smelts
- Family
- Opisthoproctidae
- Genus
- Rhynchohyalus
- Maximum length
- 16 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Distribution
- Eastern Atlantic: Madeira and off Cape Town, South Africa (Ref. 6597 ). Western Atlantic: in tropical waters. Western Pacific: off the Ogasawara Islands (Ref. 559 ), Australia (Ref. 7300 ), and New Zealand (Ref. 5755 ). Reported from the Hawaiian Islands (Ref. 58302 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
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