Bollons' rattail

Taxobox
name = Bollons' rattail


image_caption = Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Gadiformes
familia = Macrouridae
genus = "Caelorinchus"
species = "C. bollonsi"
binomial = "Caelorinchus bollonsi"
binomial_authority = McCann & McKnight, 1980

Bollons' rattail, "Caelorinchus bollonsi", is a fish of the genus "Caelorinchus", found along the east coast of New Zealand at depths of between 300 and 800 m. Its length is between 10 to 25 cm.

Bollons' rattail has the usual greatly elongated pointed tail of the rattails, as well as very large eyes and a ridged conical snout. There are long spined scales above but it is scaleless below and round the mouth. It has a chin barbel and a long first pelvic fin ray.

The colour is light brown, with 9 or 10 broad dark vertical bands on the back and flanks.

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