Spiny-back eel
| Spiny-back eel | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Notacanthiformes |
| Family: | Notacanthidae |
| Genus: | Notacanthus |
| Species: | N. sexspinis |
| Binomial name | |
| Notacanthus sexspinis J. Richardson, 1846 | |
The spiny-back eel, Notacanthus sexspinis, is a deep-sea spiny eel of the genus Notacanthus, found in all the Southern Hemisphere oceans, in depths between 500 and 1,000 m. Their length is up to 60 cm.
References
- "Notacanthus sexspinis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 19 March 2006.
- Froese, Rainer and Pauly, Daniel, eds. (2006). "Notacanthus sexspinis" in FishBase. January 2006 version.
- Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand, (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) ISBN 0-00-216987-8
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