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(Redirected from Black cut-throat eel)
The 'deepwater arrowtooth eel', ''Histiobranchus bathybius'', is a cutthroat eel of the genus ''Histiobranchus'', found around the world at depths of between 2,000 and 3,000 m. Its length is between 40 and 90 cm.
The deepwater arrowtooth eel has a typical eel shape but with a long pointed snout, and a dorsal fin which starts above the pectoral fin and an anal fin beginning about halfway along the body. There are many rows of small teeth in the jaws and on the roof of the large mouth. The gill apertures are horizontal and almost meet beneath the throat, hence the name cutthroat eel.
The scale arrangement is typical of the family and is similar to the basketwork eel. The colour varies from a uniform dark grey to completely black.
Little else is known about this fish due to the extreme depth in which it lives.
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★ 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
The 'deepwater arrowtooth eel', ''Histiobranchus bathybius'', is a cutthroat eel of the genus ''Histiobranchus'', found around the world at depths of between 2,000 and 3,000 m. Its length is between 40 and 90 cm.
The deepwater arrowtooth eel has a typical eel shape but with a long pointed snout, and a dorsal fin which starts above the pectoral fin and an anal fin beginning about halfway along the body. There are many rows of small teeth in the jaws and on the roof of the large mouth. The gill apertures are horizontal and almost meet beneath the throat, hence the name cutthroat eel.
The scale arrangement is typical of the family and is similar to the basketwork eel. The colour varies from a uniform dark grey to completely black.
Little else is known about this fish due to the extreme depth in which it lives.
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★ 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
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