Campbell whiptail

Taxobox
name = Campbell whiptail


image_caption = Drawing by Dr Tony Ayling
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Actinopterygii
ordo = Gadiformes
familia = Macrouridae
genus = "Caelorinchus"
species = "C. kaiyomaru"
binomial = "Caelorinchus kaiyomaru"
binomial_authority = Arai & Iwamoto, 1979

The campbell whiptail, kaiyomaru whiptail, or kaiyomaru rattail, "Caelorinchus kaiyomaru", is a rattail of the genus "Caelorinchus", found circumglobally in the southern oceans, at depths of between 600 and 1,150 m. Its length is between 20 to 40 cm.

The campbell whiptail has the usual greatly elongated pointed tail of the rattails, as well as large eyes and a long sharply-pointed snout. The scales are fairly large.

Body colour is pinkish with a dark blue saddle around the middle, and blackish fins.

It feeds on deep-sea decapod crustaceans, gastropods, and polychaetes

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