Agassiz'S Thread Sail Fish

Body slightly compressed. The head is small; eyes large, diameter greater than snout length. Color is yellow-fawn, with irregular oblique brown blotches on the sides. The operculum is silver-black; anus and gill cavity black; belly stippled black; caudal fin base and inner ventral fin rays black.

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 10 - 11; Analspines: 0; Analsoft rays: 8 - 10

Found on the continental shelf and slope (Ref. 75154).

Found on the continental shelf and upper slope over mud and clay bottom. Catch data indicate a schooling habit. Feeds mainly on bottom-living invertebrates. Also known to feed on pelagic crustaceans like euphausiids, decapods and mysids (Ref. 27637). A hermaphroditic species. Marketed fresh and sometimes made into fishmeal (Ref. 6688). Young are pelagic, living near the surface, the adults are demersal, living between 50 and 1000 m depth (Ref. 47377).

fisheries: minor commercial; price category: unknown; price reliability:

Found on the continental shelf and upper slope over mud and clay bottom. Temperature range is from 13°C to 4.5°C. Catch data indicate a schooling habit. Feeds mainly on bottom-living invertebrates. A hermaphroditic species. Marketed fresh and sometimes made into fish meal (Ref. 6688).

Feeds on bottom invertebrates and crustaceans such as decapods, mysids and euphausiids

Scotian Shelf to coast of Suriname; also off several of the Caribbean islands

Found on the continental shelf and upper slope over mud and clay bottom. Catch data indicate a schooling habit.

benthic

Known from seamounts and knolls