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| name = Cook's Rattail |
| name = Cook's Rattail |
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| image = Caelorinchus_cookianus_(Cook's_Rattail).gif |
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| regnum = [[Animalia]] |
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| phylum = [[Chordata]] |
| phylum = [[Chordata]] |
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Revision as of 18:22, 31 March 2006
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| Species: | C. cookianus
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| Caelorinchus cookianus McCann & McKnight, 1980
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Cook's Rattail (Caelorinchus cookianus) is a fish of the genus Caelorinchus, found along the central and south western coasts of New Zealand at depths of between 250 and 900 metres. Its length is between 10 to 25 centimetres.
Cook's Rattail is similar in appearance to Bollons' Rattail having the usual greatly elongated pointed tail and ridged conical snout of the rattails, however the eyes and head are a little smaller. There are 15 rows of spines on each scale, compared with only 5 on Bollons' Rattail.
It has a chin barbel and a long first pelvic fin ray.
The colour is light brown, with dark patches on the gill cover, behind the eye, and on the upper abdomen.
References
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Caelorinchus cookianus" 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