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Bighead Tubeshoulder
Holtbyrnia anomala
The bighead searsid (Holtbyrnia anomala) is a species of tubeshoulder fish.
From the article Bighead searsid on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
It maximum length is 25 cm (9.8 in). Its head is large, making up over a third of the fish's length. It has 25–31 gillrakers; 5–11 pyloric caecae. The snout is pointed, with premaxillary tusks pointing forward. It is dark red in colour. Its photophores are rudimentary (except for the shoulder organ), hence its specific name anomala ("unusual").
Range & habitat
The bighead searsid lives in the North Atlantic Ocean; it is a mesopelagic fish, living at depths of 700–2,000 m (2,300–6,600 ft).
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 459401.