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Macrouridae (Grenadiers or rattails) > Macrourinae
Etymology: Coryphaenoides: Greek, koryphaina = dolphin fish + Suffix oides = similar to (Ref. 45335).
Environment / Climate / Range
Ecology
Marine; bathypelagic; depth range 180 - 2600 m (Ref. 58426), usually 400 - 1200 m (Ref. 1371). Deep-water, preferred 8°C (Ref. 107945); 66°N - 20°N, 77°W - 12°E
North Atlantic: from about 37°N to Baffin Island and Greenland in the western Atlantic, and off Iceland and Norway south to North Africa in the eastern Atlantic. Reported to occur from the tongue of the Ocean east of Andros Islands (about 24°N, 77°W) in the Bahamas.
Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age
Maturity: Lm 52.7, range 60 - ? cm
Max length : 110 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 35388); max. published weight: 1.7 kg (Ref. 40637); max. reported age: 54 years (Ref. 41452)
Dorsal
spines
(total): 2;
Anal
spines: 0. Head broad, rather soft; snout broad, rounded, with a large blunt tubercular scute at its tip; chin with small barbel. Scales relatively adherent; spinules dense on body scales, long, thin and recurved, narrowly lanceolate, with longitudinal anterior concavity. Pyloric caeca 29 to 31, long and slender. Color medium brown to grayish; orbits, oral and branchial cavities, and fins blackish to brownish gray.
Benthopelagic to bathypelagic in about 400 and 1200 m depth. Minimum depth from Ref. 1371. Form large schools at 600 to 900 m depth (Ref. 9988). Feed on a variety of fish and invertebrates, but primarily on pelagic crustaceans such as shrimps, amphipods and cumaceans; cephalopods and lantern fishes constitute a lesser portion of the diet. Batch spawner (Ref. 51846). This species is currently facing overexploitation in the North Atlantic. Utilized frozen and for fishmeal; can be fried and baked (Ref. 9988).
Cohen, D.M., T. Inada, T. Iwamoto and N. Scialabba, 1990. FAO species catalogue. Vol. 10. Gadiform fishes of the world (Order Gadiformes). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cods, hakes, grenadiers and other gadiform fishes known to date. FAO Fish. Synop. 125(10). Rome: FAO. 442 p. (Ref. 1371)
IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 115185)
CITES (Ref. 94142)
Not Evaluated
Threat to humans
Harmless
Human uses
Fisheries: commercial
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Estimates of some properties based on models
Phylogenetic diversity index (Ref.
82805): PD
50 = 0.5000 [Uniqueness, from 0.5 = low to 2.0 = high].
Trophic Level (Ref.
69278): 3.5 ±0.49 se; Based on food items.
Resilience (Ref.
69278): Very Low, minimum population doubling time more than 14 years (K=0.1; tm=9-11; tmax=54; Fec=10,000).
Prior r = 0.28, 2 SD range = 0.11 - 0.71, log(r) = -1.27, SD log(r) = 0.46, Based on: 3 K, 4 tgen, 1 tmax, 15 Fec records
Vulnerability (Ref.
59153): High to very high vulnerability (67 of 100) .
