Pink cusk-eel
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| Species: | G. blacodes
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| Genypterus blacodes (Forster, 1801)
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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, kingclip, pink ling, and northern ling.
References
- "Genypterus blacodes". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. 19 March.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help) - 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