Amami grenadier
📖 Overview
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🔬 Taxonomy
🐟 Physical Description
Dorsal spines (total): 2; Anal spines: 0. Head almost completely scaled, except for the underside of the snout and anteriorly on the mandibular rami. Snout short, pointed, with stout conical tubercle at its tip and lateral angles; suborbital ridge prominent; mouth small; chin barbel very small. Scales rather deciduous; body scales with slender spinules in 7 to 19 parallel rows. Pyloric caeca 11 to 14, about half of orbit diameter, directed anteriorly. Overall color is purplish brown, lighter ventrally on head and trunk; oral and branchial cavities blackish; fins blackish.: elongated; Cross section: circular.
🌀 Behaviour
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🦐 Diet
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🥚 Reproduction
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🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Marine; bathydemersal; non-migratory; depth range 250 - 790 m . Deep-water; 35°N - 24°N, 121°E - 140°E Northwest Pacific: southern Japan to the East China Sea.
🌿 Ecology
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