Description

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Dorsal spines (total): 2; Dorsal soft rays (total): 7 - 9; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 131. Snout low, slightly protruding beyond the large mouth, without a spinous terminal scute. Scales small, slightly oblong, with moderate-sized median ridge, without spines or with few weak spinules, and 0 to 5 much lower, non-spinulated ridges laterally on exposed field. Swim bladder small, with 2 retia mirabilia. Gray-brown on head and body, each scale with a prominent dark posterior border, fins and lateral line darker; black in mouth, gill cavity, and on peritoneum (Ref. 6885). Branchiostegal rays: 6-6; pyloric caeca: 12-16;

Common Names

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Stor skolæst , Danish , Denmark

Giant grenadier , English , USA

Giant grenadier , English , Global

Giant rattail , English , USA

Giant rattail , English , Alaska

Pectoral rattail , English , Canada

Albatrosskala , Estonian , Estonia

Munedara , Japanese , Japan

細鱗壯鱈 , Mandarin Chinese , China

细鳞壮鳕 , Mandarin Chinese , China

長臂突吻鱈 , Mandarin Chinese , China

长臂突吻鳕 , Mandarin Chinese , China

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Gadiformes

Family: Macrouridae

Genus: Albatrossia

Species: Albatrossia pectoralis (Gilbert, 1892)

Climate Zone

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migratory

Location

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North Pacific: northern Japan to the Okhotsk and Bering seas, east to the Gulf of Alaska, south to northern Baja California in Mexico.

Biology

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Young apparently bathypelagic to some degree but become bathydemersal at a size of 50-60 cm (Ref. 1371). Adults feed mainly on cephalopods, fish and shrimps; other food items include ctenophores, echinoderms, worms, crabs, and amphipods (Ref. 1371). Oviparous, with planktonic larvae (Ref. 36385).

Habitat

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bathydemersal