| Family: | Macrouridae (Grenadiers or rattails), subfamily: Macrourinae |
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| Order: | Gadiformes (cods) | |||
| Class: | Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes) | |||
| In this site name: | Longbeard grenadier | |||
| Max. size: | 45.0 cm TL (male/unsexed; Ref. 1371) | |||
| Environment: | bathydemersal; non-migratory; marine; depth range 439 – 1000 m | |||
| Climate: | deep-water; 31°N - 5°N, 94°w - 54°w | |||
| Importance: | fisheries: subsistence fisheries | |||
| Resilience: | Medium, minimum population doubling time 1.4 - 4.4 years (Preliminary K or Fecundity.) | |||
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Distribution:
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Western Central Atlantic: off Guyana into the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico, and in Atlantic off northeastern Florida. Common to the south of the Gulf of Mexico, but relatively rare in the Gulf and Gulf stream. | |||
| Morphology: | Dorsal spines (total): 2 - 2; Anal spines: 0. Snout short, blunt. Scales fairly large, covered with slender conical spinules in quincunx order. Snout with black margins along its leading edge, supranarial ridges, median nasal ridge, and dorsally on suborbital. Gums of lower jaw blackish; first dorsal fin uniformly blackish to dusky. | |||
| Biology: | ||||
| Red List Status: | Not in IUCN Red List (Ref. 57073) | |||
| Dangerous: | harmless | |||
| Coordinator: | Iwamoto, Tomio | |||
