''Macrosmia phalacra'' 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 ...

known from the

Ninety East Ridge The Ninety East Ridge (also rendered as Ninetyeast Ridge, 90E Ridge or 90°E Ridge) is a mid-ocean ridge on the Indian Ocean floor named for its near-parallel strike along the 90th meridian at the center of the Eastern Hemisphere. It is approxima ...

in the

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by t ...

. This fish is found at depths of from .

References

* Macrouridae Monotypic fish genera Fish of the Indian Ocean Fish described in 1983 Taxa named by Nigel Merrett Taxa named by Yuri Igorevich Sazonov Taxa named by Yuri Nikolaevich Shcherbachev {{Gadiformes-stub