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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
- ^ NORFANZ Voyage Retrieved 2011-10-29.
- "Genypterus blacodes". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. http://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=165000. Retrieved 19 March 2006.
- Froese, Rainer, and Daniel Pauly, eds. (2006). "Genypterus blacodes" 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 978-0-00-216987-5
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