LONGHEAD GRENADIER
Caelorinchus longicephalus
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Morphology: Dorsal spines (total): 2 - 2; Anal spines: 0 - 0. Head large; eyes large; snout long, moderately pointed. Light organ small, apparent externally as a narrow blackish streak extending anteriorly from the anus to about midway between the pelvic insertions and the anal fin origin. Overall color is brown, bluish over trunk, with 5 or 6 broad saddle marks extending below the lateral line; the fins blackish, except for the whitish base and tip of the first dorsal fin; the mouth is bluish gray, the gill cavities black.
Max size: 89 cm TL (male/unsexed; Ref. 1371)
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Labrus viridis Linnaeus, 1758
Green wrasse |
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Molva dypterygia (Pennant, 1784)
Blue ling |
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Kyphosus analogus (Gill, 1862)
Blue-bronze sea chub |
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Rhinoprenes pentanemus Munro, 1964
Threadfin scat |
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Pellonula vorax Günther, 1868
Bigtoothed pellonula |