Ahuru

Ahuru

Taxobox
name = Ahuru


regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Gadiformes
familia = Moridae
genus = "Auchenoceros"
species = "A. punctatus"
binomial = "Auchenoceros punctatus"
binomial_authority = Paulin, 1986The ahuru ("Auchenoceros punctatus") is a small deepwater fish, the only fish of the genus "Auchenoceros", found on the east coast of New Zealand. Its length is about 13 centimetres.

It has a blunt snout, and a first dorsal fin reduced to a single elongate ray that overlaps the origin of the second dorsal fin.

The colour is a uniform pale pink-white. They are found over sand and mud bottoms in inshore waters around much of New Zealand.

References

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*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


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