Stemonosudis macrura


Stemonosudis macrura is a species of deep-water marine, bathypelagic fish living at the depth range, member of the barracudina family Paralepididae. The fish is known to distributed in Indo-Pacific and eastern Pacific Ocean from around Point Conception State Marine Reserve in California in the north to Chile in the south.

Description

The reported maximum length an unsexed male was. and it has seven to nine soft dorsal rays and 33 to 38 soft anal rays. It is oviparous with planktonic larvae.

Taxonomy

It was first formally described in 1933 by Vilhelm Ege.