Common Atlantic grenadier | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Gadiformes |
Family: | Macrouridae |
Genus: | Nezumia |
Species: | N. aequalis
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Binomial name | |
Nezumia aequalis (
Günther, 1878)
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Synonyms [2] | |
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The common Atlantic grenadier (Nezumia aequalis) is a species of fish in the family Macrouridae. [3] [4] [5] [6]
The common Atlantic grenadier is blue-violet in colour, with silvery and black areas. Its maximum length is 36 centimetres (14 in). It has 2 dorsal spines and its spinules are lanceolate or shield-shaped. [7] Its head, snout and chin barbel are short. [8] [9]
The common Atlantic grenadier lives in the Atlantic Ocean; [10] it is benthopelagic, living at depths of 200–2,320 m (660–7,610 ft). [11]
The common Atlantic grenadier feeds on mysids, amphipods, small shrimps, copepods, isopods, ostracods and polychaete worms. [8] [12]
Media related to
Nezumia aequalis at Wikimedia Commons
Common Atlantic grenadier | |
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Gadiformes |
Family: | Macrouridae |
Genus: | Nezumia |
Species: | N. aequalis
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Binomial name | |
Nezumia aequalis (
Günther, 1878)
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Synonyms [2] | |
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The common Atlantic grenadier (Nezumia aequalis) is a species of fish in the family Macrouridae. [3] [4] [5] [6]
The common Atlantic grenadier is blue-violet in colour, with silvery and black areas. Its maximum length is 36 centimetres (14 in). It has 2 dorsal spines and its spinules are lanceolate or shield-shaped. [7] Its head, snout and chin barbel are short. [8] [9]
The common Atlantic grenadier lives in the Atlantic Ocean; [10] it is benthopelagic, living at depths of 200–2,320 m (660–7,610 ft). [11]
The common Atlantic grenadier feeds on mysids, amphipods, small shrimps, copepods, isopods, ostracods and polychaete worms. [8] [12]
Media related to
Nezumia aequalis at Wikimedia Commons