Banded whiptail
Appearance
Banded whiptail | |
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Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Actinopterygii |
Order: | Gadiformes |
Family: | Macrouridae |
Subfamily: | Macrourinae |
Genus: | Coelorinchus |
Species: | C. fasciatus
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Binomial name | |
Coelorinchus fasciatus (Günther, 1878)
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The banded whiptail (Coelorinchus fasciatus) is a species of rattail found circumpolar in the Great Southern Ocean at depths of between 70 and 1,100 m. Its length is between 25 and 45 cm.
References
[edit]- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Coelorinchus fasciatus". FishBase. June 2012 version.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8