Animalia > Chordata > Gadiformes > Macrouridae > Hymenocephalus > Hymenocephalus lethonemus

Hymenocephalus lethonemus (Grenadier)

Synonyms: Hymenocephalus lethonenmus
Language: Japanese

Wikipedia Abstract

Hymenocephalus lethonemus is a species of rattail. It occurs at depths of up to 485 m in the waters off southern Japan, the Philippines and northern Taiwan. This is a small, slender rattail with a total length of up to 14 cm. It has a fairly long, sharp snout, small eyes, a large mouth and no chin barbel. There is a long bioluminescent organ with two external lenses just in front of the anus.
View Wikipedia Record: Hymenocephalus lethonemus

Predators

Ateleopus japonicus (Pacific jellynose fish)[1]
Chlorophthalmus albatrossis[1]
Congriscus megastomus (Bigmouth conger eel)[1]

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit 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.
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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