Ahuru
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| Genus: | Auchenoceros
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| Species: | A. punctatus
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| Auchenoceros punctatus Paulin, 1986
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The 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
- "Auchenoceros punctatus". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. 19 March.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=and|year=/|date=mismatch (help) - Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.) (2006). "Auchenoceros punctatus" 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 0-00-216987-8