''Cataetyx alleni'', sometimes called Allen's brotula, is a species of fish in the family
Bythitidae
The viviparous brotulas form a family, the Bythitidae, of ophidiiform fishes. They are known as viviparous brotulas as they generally viviparity, bear live young, although there are indications that some species (at least ''Didymothallus crinicep ...
(viviparous brotulas).
Description
''Cataetyx alleni'' is grey, with a maximum length of . It has 109–111 dorsal
finray
Fins are distinctive anatomical features composed of bony spines or rays protruding from the body of a fish. They are covered with skin and joined together either in a webbed fashion, as seen in most bony fish, or similar to a flipper, as s ...
s, 79–83 anal finrays, and 31–32 pectoral finrays.
Habitat
''Cataetyx alleni'' is
bathydemersal
Demersal fish, also known as groundfish, live and feed on or near the bottom of seas or lakes (the demersal zone).Walrond Carl . "Coastal fish - Fish of the open sea floor"Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Updated 2 March 2009 They occ ...
, living at depths of in the
Atlantic Ocean and
Mediterranean Sea.
Behaviour
''Cataetyx alleni'' reproduces
viviparously.
It feeds on
polychaetes and benthic
crustaceans.
References
Bythitidae
Fish described in 1906
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