Animalia > Chordata > Gadiformes > Macrouridae > Coryphaenoides > Coryphaenoides rupestris

Coryphaenoides rupestris (Roundnose grenadier; Rock grenadier; Blunt-nose rattail; Black grenadier)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Coryphaenoides rupestris is a species of marine ray-finned fish in the family Macrouridae. Its common names include the rock grenadier, the roundnose grenadier and the roundhead rat-tail. In France it is known as Grenadier de roche and in Spain as Granadero de roca. It is a large, deep water species and is fished commercially in the northern Atlantic Ocean.
View Wikipedia Record: Coryphaenoides rupestris

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Coryphaenoides rupestris

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  2.05 lbs (930 g)
Female Maturity [2]  10 years
Maximum Longevity [2]  54 years

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Sirmilik National Park II 5475284 Canada

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Hydrolagus mirabilis (Large-eyed rabbitfish)[7]
Molva dypterygia (Ling)[3]
Reinhardtius hippoglossoides (Turbot)[6]
Sebastes mentella (Redfish)[4]

Consumers

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
2Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
3Predator-Prey Relationships and Food Sources of the Skagerrak Deep-Water Fish Assemblage, O. A. Bergstad, Å. D. Wik and Ø. Hildre, J. Northw. Atl. Fish. Sci., Vol. 31, 2003, pp. 165-180
4Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
5Feeding ecology of deep fishes in the Le Danois Bank (Cantabrian Sea, North Spain), Preciado, I., Cartes, J., Velasco, F., Olaso, I., Serrano, A., Frutos, I., Sánchez, F., nternational Symposium on Oceanography of the Bay of Biscay (Vigo, Spain) (2006)
6Feeding Habits of Fish Species Distributed on the Grand Bank, Concepción González1, Xabier Paz, Esther Román, and María Hermida, NAFO SCR Doc. 06/31, Serial No. N5251 (2006)
7Feeding Habits and Biological Features of Deep-Sea Species of the Northwest Atlantic: Large-eyed Rabbitfish (Hydrolagus mirabilis), Narrownose Chimaera (Harriotta raleighana) and Black Dogfish (Centroscyllium fabricii)., Concepción González, Josefina Teruel, Eduardo López and Xabier Paz, Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization, SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL MEETING – SEPTEMBER 2007, Serial No. N5423, NAFO SCR Doc. 07/63
8Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0