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Sternoptychidae
False oblique hatchetfish
Sternoptyx pseudodiaphana
Six Centimeters Sternoptychid Fish from the Pacific Ocean
- Cross-climate
- Subtropical
- Temperate
- Tropical
- Circumpolar Antarctic
- Northern Hemisphere
- Southern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- Polar regions
- Deep-bodied
- Small
Cross-climate
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Deep-bodied
SmallFalse oblique hatchetfish is known from Circumglobal in subtropical and temperate waters of the southern as a marine fish. It occurs in deep water.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Family
- Sternoptychidae
- Genus
- Sternoptyx
- Maximum length
- 6 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- deep_bodied
- Distribution
- Circumglobal in subtropical and temperate waters of the southern hemisphere. Another (possibly disjunct) population found in the tropical northeast Atlantic. A few specimens from the sub-Antarctic waters of the Pacific Ocean.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
