Description

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Dorsal soft rays (total): 116 - 123; Anal spines: 2; Anal soft rays: 74 - 87; Vertebrae: 125 - 129. Body very elongate and compressed. Head profile straight or scarcely convex, with sagittal crest strongly elevated. Both jaws have a short dermal process; the lower jaw longer than the upper jaw. The dorsal fin has a few weak anterior spines that hardly differ from the soft rays. Body color silvery, dorsal fin membrane black before the third to the fourth soft ray.

Common Names

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سمك-حُسام مُوسِي , Arabic , Saudi Arabia

Skarprygget sabelfisk , Danish , Denmark

Anzac frost-fish , English , Australia

Razorback scabbardfish , English , French Polynesia

Razorback scabbardfish , English , USA

Razorback scabbardfish , English , Global

Poisson sabre rasoir , French , France

Poisson-sabre rasoir , French , Global

Nagayumetachimodoki , Japanese , Japan

붕동갈치 , Korean , Korea (South)

短头窄颅带鱼 , Mandarin Chinese , China

短頭窄顱帶魚 , Mandarin Chinese , China

長剃刀帶魚 , Mandarin Chinese , China

长剃刀带鱼 , Mandarin Chinese , China

长剃刀带鱼 , Mandarin Chinese , China

Sable aserrado , Spanish , Mexico

Sable aserrado , Spanish , Spain

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Scombriformes

Family: Trichiuridae

Genus: Assurger

Species: Assurger anzac (Alexander, 1917)

Climate Zone

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Tropical

Location

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Atlantic Ocean: Walvis Ridge, off Puerto Rico and Uruguay. Indian Ocean: off western Australia. Pacific Ocean: off New Guinea, southern Japan, Midway Island, California, Nazca and Sala y Gomez Ridge.

Biology

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Probably benthopelagic from 150 to 400 m, juveniles epipelagic or mesopelagic. Feeds on fishes (including Engraulis mordax and Merluccius productus off California) and squids. Occasionally hooked, captured in nets, or found washed ashore. No special fishery.

Habitat

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benthopelagic