The banded whiptail, ''Coelorinchus fasciatus'', is a species of
rattail
Grenadiers or rattails are generally large, brown to black gadiform marine fish of the subfamily Macrourinae, the largest subfamily of the family Macrouridae. Found at great depths from the Arctic to Antarctic, members of this subfamily are am ...
found circumpolar in the
Great Southern Ocean at depths of between 70 and 1,100 m. Its length is between 25 and 45 cm.
References
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* Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, ''Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand'', (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982)
Macrouridae
Fish described in 1878
Taxa named by Albert Günther
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