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IllustrationBlackfin rat tail
Bathygadus furvescens
Valid name (FishBase; confirmed in Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes and WoRMS, October 2026).
- English
- Blackfin rat tail
- Scientific
- Bathygadus furvescens
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Deep-water fish
- Family
- Bathygadidae (rattails)
- Maximum size
- Up to about 36 cm (total length)
- Depth and habitat
- Deep open water, recorded from 797 to 1295 m
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
Description
A deep-sea rattail with a large head and a long body tapering to a thin, tail-less point, reaching about 36 cm. It lives on deep slopes at roughly 800 to 1,300 m.
Sources
- fishbase.se /summary/Bathygadus-furvescens.html
Dhivehi name source: No Dhivehi name found in MRS 1997 (available chapters), FishBase (country: Maldives) or Dhivehi Wikipedia.