Rinoctes
Species of fish
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Rinoctes is a monospecific genus of deepwater maine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Alepocephalidae, the slickheads. The only species in the genus is Rinoctes nasutus, the abyssal smooth-head, which is found at depths of 2,000 metres (6,600 ft) to 4,156 metres (13,635 ft) in the Atlantic Ocean, and possibly in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.[1] It grows to a length of 19 centimetres (7.5 in) SL.[2]
| Rinoctes | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Division: | Teleostei |
| Order: | Alepocephaliformes |
| Family: | Alepocephalidae |
| Genus: | Rinoctes A. E. Parr, 1952 |
| Species: | R. nasutus |
| Binomial name | |
| Rinoctes nasutus (Koefoed, 1927) | |
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