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Grenadier (no English common name)
Coelorinchus quadricristatus
Valid name (FishBase; confirmed in Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes and WoRMS, October 2026).
- English
- Grenadier (no English common name)
- Scientific
- Coelorinchus quadricristatus
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Deep-water fish
- Maximum size
- Up to about 52 cm (total length)
- Depth and habitat
- Near the bottom and in the water column above it, recorded from 344 to 741 m
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
Description
A deep-sea grenadier with a pointed snout and a long body tapering to a thin tail, reaching about 52 cm. It lives near the bottom at roughly 340 to 740 m and is known from the Maldives and the Andaman Sea.
Sources
- fishbase.se /summary/Coelorinchus-quadricristatus.html
Dhivehi name source: No Dhivehi name found in MRS 1997 (available chapters), FishBase (country: Maldives) or Dhivehi Wikipedia.