Pink cusk-eel: Difference between revisions
Content deleted Content added
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 2: | Line 2: | ||
| name = Pink cusk-eel |
| name = Pink cusk-eel |
||
| image =Genypterus blacodes derivate work.jpg |
| image =Genypterus blacodes derivate work.jpg |
||
| image2 =Genypterus blacodes.jpg |
|||
| regnum = [[Animalia]] |
| regnum = [[Animalia]] |
||
| phylum = [[Chordata]] |
| phylum = [[Chordata]] |
||
Revision as of 21:05, 1 December 2010
| Pink cusk-eel | |
|---|---|
| |
| |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | |
| Phylum: | |
| Class: | |
| Order: | |
| Family: | |
| Genus: | |
| 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.
References
- "Genypterus blacodes". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 19 March 2006.
- Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (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