The carapine grenadier (''Coryphaenoides carapinus'') is a species of deep-sea fish in the family Macrouridae. Its name (pronounced ) refers to its resemblance to the ''

Carapus ''Carapus'' is a genus of pearlfishes, with these currently recognized species: * ''Carapus acus'' ( Brünnich, 1768) (pearlfish) * ''Carapus bermudensis'' ( J. M. Jones, 1874) (Atlantic pearlfish) * ''Carapus dubius'' ( Putnam, 1874) (Pacific pe ...

'' pearlfishes.

Description

The carapine grenadier is pale grey with a peppering of melanophores. It is up to in length. It has a narrow band of pointed teeth in the

premaxillae The premaxilla (or praemaxilla) is one of a pair of small cranial bones at the very tip of the upper jaw of many animals, usually, but not always, bearing teeth. In humans, they are fused with the maxilla. The "premaxilla" of therian mammal has b ...

Habitat

The carapine grenadier lives in the Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean; it is

bathypelagic The bathypelagic zone or bathyal zone (from Greek βαθύς (bathýs), deep) is the part of the open ocean that extends from a depth of below the ocean surface. It lies between the mesopelagic above, and the abyssopelagic below. The bathypelagic ...

, living at depths of .

Behaviour

The carapine grenadier feeds on

polychaete worms Polychaeta () is a paraphyletic class of generally marine annelid worms, commonly called bristle worms or polychaetes (). Each body segment has a pair of fleshy protrusions called parapodia that bear many bristles, called chaetae, which are m ...

copepod Copepods (; meaning "oar-feet") are a group of small crustaceans found in nearly every freshwater and saltwater habitat (ecology), habitat. Some species are planktonic (inhabiting sea waters), some are benthos, benthic (living on the ocean floor) ...

amphipod Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods range in size from and are mostly detritivores or scavengers. There are more than 9,900 amphipod species so far descr ...

isopod Isopoda is an order of crustaceans that includes woodlice and their relatives. Isopods live in the sea, in fresh water, or on land. All have rigid, segmented exoskeletons, two pairs of antennae, seven pairs of jointed limbs on the thorax, an ...

s and mysids.

References

Macrouridae Fish described in 1883 Taxa named by George Brown Goode Taxa named by Tarleton Hoffman Bean {{gadiformes-stub