The spotted codlet, MacClelland's unicorn-cod, or unicorn cod, ''Bregmaceros mcclellandi'', is a small, deepwater

codlet Codlets are a family, Bregmacerotidae, of cod-like fishes, containing the single genus ''Bregmaceros'' found in tropical and subtropical waters throughout the world. They are very small fishes and even the largest, ''B. lanceolatus'', reaches onl ...

fish found in the western

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to eastern

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. It occurs from the surface to depths of , and it reaches up to in

standard length Fish measurement is the measuring of individual fish and various parts of their anatomies. These data are used in many areas of ichthyology, including taxonomy and fisheries biology. Overall length * Standard length (SL) is the length of a fish m ...

. This species is of commercial importance to local fisheries.Tony Ayling and Geoffrey Cox, ''Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand'', (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982)

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Bregmacerotidae Fish described in 1840 {{Gadiformes-stub