Coryphaenoides Oreinos

📖 Overview

Coryphaenoides Oreinos (Coryphaenoides oreinos), first described by Iwamoto & Sazonov, 1988 is a large fish in the family Macrouridae (order Gadiformes). Adults typically reach 65.00 cm in maximum length. It inhabits marine coastal and open-ocean environments. Recorded depth range: 990 to 1626 metres. It occurs in Deep-water waters. It feeds on a mix of small fish and invertebrates as a mid-level predator.

🔬 Taxonomy

🐟 Physical Description

Dorsal spines (total): 2; Dorsal soft rays (total): 8 - 10. Broad snout, rounded, naked but for 2 spiny tubercular scales at lateral angles; small coarse scales in a series along the posterior part of the median nasal ridge; a wedge of small scales intruding forward from the interorbital region on each side of median ridge. Prominent naked margins on head bones. Reduced spinules on scales, absent along the outer margins, about 8-12 subparallel ridges, few with sharp spinules. Internasal width about 5 in head, interorbital about 4, slightly greater than orbit diameter; small barbel, about 0.5 or less into orbit; upper jaw 36-39% head length. 1D. II,8-10 .: elongated.

🌀 Behaviour

Behavioural data for Coryphaenoides Oreinos is currently being reviewed.

🦐 Diet

🥚 Reproduction

🌍 Habitat & Distribution

Marine; bathydemersal; depth range 990 - 1626 m . Deep-water Central Pacific: Dowd Tablemount, Seamount 375, Mexico.

🌿 Ecology

📐 Morphometrics

🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance

📊 Population Risk & Fisheries

🐠 Related Species

🔍 Similar Species

🗺️ Global Occurrence Map

Occurrence records from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) - 1 records indexed .

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