Ribbon sawtail fish
| Ribbon sawtail fish | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Stomiiformes |
| Family: | Stomiidae |
| Genus: | Idiacanthus |
| Species: | I. fasciola |
| Binomial name | |
| Idiacanthus fasciola W. K. H. Peters, 1877 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Stylophthalmus paradoxus, Brauer, 1902 [1] | |
The ribbon sawtail fish, Idiacanthus fasciola, is a barbeled dragonfish of the family Stomiidae, found around the world at depths over 500 m between latitudes 40° N and 54° S. Length is up to 35 cm in general for the female, and 15 cm for the male.
References
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Idiacanthus fasciola" in FishBase. May 2006 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
- https://archive.is/20130212144646/http://filaman.uni-kiel.de/LarvalBase/Summary/LarvaSummary.cfm?genusname=Idiacanthus&speciesname=fasciola
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