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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 metres. Their length is up to 60 centimetres. |
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The spiny-back eel is an deep-bodied [[Scale (zoology)|scale]]less eel-like fish with a blunt rounded snout overhanging a small mouth. The [[dorsal fin]] has been reduced to 6 or 7 short sharp spines widely separated on the back but the [[anal fin]] is long, extending from midway along the body to the tip of the tail. |
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These fish are a pallid off-white colour faintly tinged with pink, and are black inside the mouth and lips. |
These fish are a pallid off-white colour faintly tinged with pink, and are black inside the mouth and lips. |
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| Notacanthus sexspinis Richardson, 1846
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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 metres. Their length is up to 60 centimetres.
The spiny-back eel is an deep-bodied scaleless eel-like fish with a blunt rounded snout overhanging a small mouth. The dorsal fin has been reduced to 6 or 7 short sharp spines widely separated on the back but the anal fin is long, extending from midway along the body to the tip of the tail.
These fish are a pallid off-white colour faintly tinged with pink, and are black inside the mouth and lips.
References
- "Notacanthus sexspinis". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. 19 March.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help) - Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "Notacanthus sexspinis". 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