Image of eelpouts
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Description:
Description: 500 mm length. A member of the Zoarcidae, but this is not genus Lycodes. More likely it is Pachycara (short blunt snout).
Item Type: Image
Title: Eelpout
Copyright: SERPENT project
Species: Pachycara sp.
Behaviour: Feeding on bait on the seabed.
Site: Atlantic -- South Atlantic -- Nigeria -- Akpo field
Atlantic -- Central Atlantic -- Nigeria -- Akpo field
Site Description: Midwater
Depth (m): 1366m
Latitude: 3 deg 07' 00" N
Longitude: 6 deg 49' 00" E
Countries: West Africa -- Nigeria
Habitat: Benthic
Rig: Jack Ryan
Project Partners: Total, Transocean, Oceaneering
ROV: Millennium 43
Deposited By: Mr R Curry
Deposited On: 09 December 2009
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- Life (creatures)
- Cellular (cellular organisms)
- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
- Bilateria
- Deuterostomia (deuterostomes)
- Chordata (Chordates)
- Vertebrata (vertebrates)
- Gnathostomata (jawed fish)
- Osteichthyes
- Actinopterygii (ray-finned fishes)
- Neopterygii
- Teleostei
- Euteleostei
- Neoteleostei
- Acanthopterygii
- Perciformes
- Cottioidei
- Zoarcidae (eelpouts)
- Pachycara
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