Pink cusk-eel

Pink cusk-eel
Pink cusk-eel
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Actinopterygii
Order: Ophidiiformes
Family: Ophidiidae
Genus: Genypterus
Species: G. blacodes
Binomial name
Genypterus blacodes
(Forster, 1801)

The pink cusk-eel, Genypterus blacodes, is a cusk eel of the genus Genypterus, found in southern Australia, Chile, Brazil, South Africa and around New Zealand except the east coast of Northland, in depths of a few metres to 1000 metres. Their length is between 80 and 200 centimetres, and they live for up to 30 years.

Other names in English include ling, Australian rockling, kingklip, pink ling, and northern ling.

In the month-long NORFANZ Expedition of 2003 which was examining the biodiversity of the seamounts and slopes of the Norfolk Ridge near New Zealand, a single specimen weighing 6.3kg (20lb) was collected.[1]

References

  1. ^ NORFANZ Voyage Retrieved 2011-10-29.

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