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Ateleopus purpureus Tanaka, 1915

Description

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 9 - 10; Anal spines: 0.

Common Names

  • Murasaki-shachiburi , Japanese , Japan
  • 紫辫鱼 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 紫辮魚 , Mandarin Chinese , China

    • Taxonomic Hierarchy

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Chordata

    Class: Teleostei

    Order: Ateleopodiformes

    Family: Ateleopodidae

    Genus: Ateleopus

    Species: Ateleopus purpureus Tanaka, 1915

    Climate Zone

  • bathydemersal

    • Location

  • Northwest Pacific: Japan and the East and South China seas.

    • Biology

    Found on sand-mud bottoms (Ref. 41299).

    Habitat

    bathydemersal