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Bluntsnout Grenadier

Nezumia sclerorhynchus (Valenciennes 1838)

Diagnostic Description

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Snout short, bluntly acute; terminal scute broad, blunt; ventral surface of snout without scales posteriorly including most of suborbital, mandible mostly naked, pores prominent on head. Pyloric caeca 22 to 29. Body scales with slender, conical, slanting spinules arranged in converging rows. Color in alcohol brownish, paler on head, with violet tinge on abdomen, some silvery reflections; fins pale to blackish; first dorsal fin uniformly blackish; mouth and gill cavity mostly black.
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Rodolfo B. Reyes
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Morphology

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Dorsal spines (total): 2; Analspines: 0
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Trophic Strategy

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Most numerous at 450 to 730 m in the open Atlantic and at 500 to 800 m in the Mediterranean. Feeds on small crustaceans (copepods, amphipods, decapods, mysids, etc.) and polychaetes. Feeds on benthic and pelagic prey (Ref. 52081).
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Biology

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Most numerous at 450 to 730 m in the open Atlantic and at 500 to 800 m in the Mediterranean. Feeds on small crustaceans (copepods, amphipods, decapods, mysids, etc.) and polychaetes (Ref. 1371)
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Rainer Froese
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Importance

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fisheries: minor commercial; price category: medium; price reliability: very questionable: based on ex-vessel price for species in this family
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Diet

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Feeds on small crustaceans, such as copepods and amphipods, and polychaetes

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North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

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Distribution

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Atlantic : from the North Atlantic south to the northern part of the Gulf of Guinea in the east, into the Mediterranean Sea, and north of Straits of Florida in the west

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Habitat

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Found at depths of 450- 730 m.

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Habitat

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