The Kermadec rattail, ''Coelorinchus kermadecus'', 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 around
New Zealand including the
Kermadec Islands at depths of between 1,100 and 1,200 m. Its length is about 40 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
Endemic marine fish of New Zealand
Fauna of the Kermadec Islands
Fish described in 1904
Taxa named by David Starr Jordan
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