| Glasshead grenadier | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Gadiformes |
| Family: | Macrouridae |
| Genus: | Hymenocephalus |
| Species: | H. italicus |
| Binomial name | |
| Hymenocephalus italicus (Giglioli, 1884) | |
| Synonyms [2] | |
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The glasshead grenadier (Hymenocephalus italicus) is a species of fish in the family Macrouridae. [3] [4] [5] [6]
The glasshead grenadier has a measurement of up to 25 cm (9.8 in). Its snout is obtuse and projects slightly beyond the mouth. Its barbel is small, and its scales are thin, deciduous, spiny and large. [7]
The glasshead grenadier lives in the Atlantic Ocean; [8] it is benthopelagic, living at depths of 100–1,400 m (330–4,590 ft). [9]
The glasshead grenadier feeds on pelagic copepods, euphausiids and gammarid amphipods, shrimp, ostracods, cumaceans and other small crustaceans. [9] [10]
Coryphaenoides is a genus of rattails which is found in all oceans of the world. They are found in deep waters and C. yaquinae, recorded to 7,012 m (23,005 ft), is the only member in the family known from the hadal zone.
Nezumia is a genus of rattails. The generic name derives from the Japanese 鼠 (nezumi), meaning "mouse".
Hymenocephalus is a genus of rattails.
The yellow conger is an eel in the family Congridae. It was described by George Brown Goode and Tarleton Hoffman Bean in 1896. It is a marine, tropical eel which is known from the Gulf of Mexico and the mouth of the Amazon River, in the western Atlantic Ocean. It dwells at a depth range of 26 to 183 meters, and inhabits soft sediments. Males can reach a maximum total length of 150 centimeters (59 in), but more commonly reach a TL of 30 centimeters (12 in).
Trachyrincus scabrus, the roughsnout grenadier or Mediterranean longsnout grenadier, is a species of bathydemersal marine fish from the subfamily Trachyrincinae, part of the family Macrouridae. It is found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean.
The bighead searsid is a species of tubeshoulder fish.
The smallmouth spiny eel, also called the shortspine tapirfish, is a species of deep-sea spiny eel.
Coryphaenoides brevibarbis, also called the shortbeard grenadier, is a species of deep-sea fish in the family Macrouridae.
The spearsnouted grenadier is a species of fish in the family Macrouridae.
The morid cod, largeye lepidion, or North Atlantic codling is a species of fish in the family Moridae. The Catalog of Fishes considers it a synonym of Lepidion lepidion.
The hollowsnout grenadier, also called the blackspot grenadier, is a species of fish in the family Macrouridae.
Schnakenbeck's searsid is a species of fish in the family Platytroctidae (tubeshoulders).
The carapine grenadier is a species of deep-sea fish in the family Macrouridae.
The common Atlantic grenadier is a species of fish in the family Macrouridae.
Paracetonurus flagellicauda is a species of fish in the subfamily Macrourinae. Some sources place it in the genus Pseudonezumia.
Günther's grenadier is a species of deep-sea fish in the family Macrouridae.
The multipore searsid is a species of fish in the family Platytroctidae (tubeshoulders).
Maul's searsid, also called Maul's tubeshoulder, is a species of fish in the family Platytroctidae (tubeshoulders), named for Günther Maul.
The Mediterranean grenadier is a species of deep-sea fish in the family Macrouridae.
The deepwater grenadier is a species of deep-sea fish in the family Macrouridae.
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