Cherry snailfish
📖 Overview
Smallest female with yolked eggs measured 10.5. cm SL; smallest male with enlarged, swollen testes 7.45 cm SL .
🔬 Taxonomy
🐟 Physical Description
Diagnosis: Simple teeth or with weak shoulders; nasal pore 1 with pigmented papilla; black peritoneum; single, finger-like projection on the orobuccal valve, its cavity pale; gill rakers 8 - 12, short and blunt; interorbital papilla may be present or absent; pyloric caeca on the right side; body is red; iris silver gray .: fusiform / normal.
🌀 Behaviour
Behavioural data for Cherry snailfish is currently being reviewed.
🦐 Diet
Diet information for Cherry snailfish is currently being compiled.
🥚 Reproduction
Reproduction data for Cherry snailfish is currently being compiled.
🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Marine; bathydemersal; depth range 75 - 631 m , usually 300 - 500 m . Deep-water Northwest Pacific: off Honshu, Japan at Sagami Bay, Kuril Islands, and eastern Okhotsk Sea.
🌿 Ecology
📐 Morphometrics
🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance
📊 Population Risk & Fisheries
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