Black Cusk Eel

Genypterus maculatus (Tschudi 1846)

Genypterus maculatus (Black Cusk Eel) is a species of ray-finned fishes in the family cusk-eels. Individuals can grow to 100.0 cm.

EOL has data for 8 attributes, including:

body size
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBA_VT0100005
- Definition: The size of a multicellular organism
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50 cm
geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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Southeast Pacific: Peru to northern Chile
habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
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benthic
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/benthic
- Definition: Living at the bottom of a body of water.
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harvested in
- URI: https://eol.org/schema/terms/harvested_in
- Definition: This organism is caught or collected, and put to human use, in the following region(s)
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Chile
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/3895114
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has endoparasite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002635
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Cucullanus genypteri Sardella, Navone & Timi 1997
Total length
- URI: http://purl.org/obo/owlATOL_0001660
- Definition: length from the tip of the snout to the tip of the longer lobe of the caudal fin, usually measured with the lobes compressed along the midline. It is a straight-line measure, not measured over the curve of the body
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100.0 cm

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Black cusk eel. View this species on GBIF