Abyssal spiderfish
Abyssal spiderfish | |
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Abyssal spiderfish from Oceanic Ichthyology by G. Brown Goode & Tarleton H. Bean (1896) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Aulopiformes |
Family: | Ipnopidae |
Genus: | Bathypterois |
Species: | B. longipes
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Binomial name | |
Bathypterois longipes Günther, 1878
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The abyssal spiderfish, Bathypterois longipes, is a species of
demersal fish living on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, even on the abyssal plain
. It is one of the deepest-dwelling fish known.
This solitary fish grows about ten inches long, and has a "tripod" formation of fins both used to rest on the bottom, and to travel on the water column. It lives in extremely cold water, at temperatures of 0 – −9 °C (32–16 °F).
References
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