The elongate smooth-head (''Conocara microlepis''), also called the elongate slickhead, is a species of fish in the family

Alepocephalidae Slickheads, also known as nakedheads or smoothheads, are deep water fishes that belong to the family Alepocephalidae. They are most commonly found in the bathypelagic layer, which is approximately 3000m below the surface. They get their name from ...

Description

The elongate smooth-head is brownish in colour; its premaxillae form a sharp plate-like 'visor'. Its maximum length is .

Habitat

The elongate smooth-head lives in the northeast Atlantic Ocean, Arabian Sea 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 on the continental slope. Its specific name ''microlepis'' means "small

scale Scale or scales may refer to: Mathematics * Scale (descriptive set theory), an object defined on a set of points * Scale (ratio), the ratio of a linear dimension of a model to the corresponding dimension of the original * Scale factor, a number ...

References

Alepocephalidae Fish described in 1909 Taxa named by Richard Ernest Lloyd {{Rayfinned-fish-stub