Roughsnout grenadier
📖 Overview
Primarily a pelagic feeder, feeds primarily on pelagic copepods, but also takes mysids, shrimps, cephalopods, fish, polychaetes and gastropods . Mainly reduced to fishmeal and oil .
🔬 Taxonomy
🐟 Physical Description
Snout long, narrow, sharply pointed. Dorsal scute row striating from just behind the head and extending to about behind a vertical through the anus, with more than 20 scute. Ventral scute row not reaching anus. Scute keels generally smooth blade-like, without multicuspid tips in small individuals (
🌀 Behaviour
Behavioural data for Roughsnout grenadier is currently being reviewed.
🦐 Diet
🥚 Reproduction
🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Marine; bathydemersal; non-migratory; depth range 395 - 1700 m . Deep-water; 55°N - 27°S, 26°W - 36°E west coast of South Africa' as reported by Iwamoto 1986 (Ref.
🌿 Ecology
pelagic copepods, but also takes mysids, shrimps, cephalopods, fish, polychaetes and gastropods (Ref
📐 Morphometrics
🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance
🛡️ Conservation Assessment
📊 Population Risk & Fisheries
🌐 Names & Taxonomy
| Language | Common Names |
|---|---|
| 🇬🇧English | Roughnosed Rattail · Roughsnout grenadier · Roughsnout grenadier, Roughsnout Rat-tail · roughsnout rat-tail |
| 🌍ELL | Τραχύρρυγχος γρεναδιέρος |
| 🇫🇷French | Grenadier rude |
| 🌍NNO | spissnuta skolest |
| 🌍NOB | spissnutet skolest |
| 🇪🇸Spanish | Pez Rata |
| 🌍TUR | uzun burunlu fare baligi |
Scientific Synonyms
| Scientific Name | Author | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lepidoleprus trachyrincus | Risso | 1810 | Synonym |
| Macrurus trachyrhynchus | Risso | 1810 | Synonym |
| Oxycephas scabrus | Rafinesque | 1810 | Synonym |
| Trachyrhinchus scabrus | Rafinesque | 1810 | Synonym |
| Trachyrhinchus trachyrhinchus | Risso | 1810 | Synonym |
| Trachyrhynchus scabrus | Rafinesque | 1810 | Synonym |
| Trachyrhynchus trachyrhynchus | Risso | 1810 | Synonym |
| Trachyrhynchus trachyrhynchyus | Risso | 1810 | Synonym |
| Trachyrhynchus trachyryncus | Risso | 1810 | Synonym |
| Trachyrincus anonyme | Giorna | 1809 | Synonym |
| Trachyrincus trachyrincus | Risso | 1810 | Synonym |
🔍 Similar Species
🗺️ Global Occurrence Map
Occurrence records from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) - 28 records indexed .
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