The salmon smooth-head (''Conocara salmoneum''), also called the deepsea 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 salmon smooth-head is brownish in colour. Its head is large, about a third of its length. Its maximum length is . It has 25–27 anal

soft rays Fish anatomy is the study of the form or morphology of fish. It can be contrasted with fish physiology, which is the study of how the component parts of fish function together in the living fish. In practice, fish anatomy and fish physiology co ...

Habitat

The salmon smooth-head lives in the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific 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 .

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q2789050 Alepocephalidae Fish described in 1897 Taxa named by Theodore Gill Taxa named by Charles Haskins Townsend