Blunt Tooth Snailfish

Careproctus paxtoni Stein, Chernova & Andriashev 2001

Careproctus paxtoni (Blunt Tooth Snailfish) is a species of ray-finned fishes in the family snailfishes. Individuals can grow to 14.4 cm.

EOL has data for 7 attributes, including:

body size
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBA_VT0100005
- Definition: The size of a multicellular organism
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14.4 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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Southwest Pacific: off New South Wales, Australia
habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
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sea water
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000321
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standard length
- URI: http://purl.org/obo/owlATOL_0001659
- Definition: length of a fish measured from the tip of the snout to the posterior end of the last vertebra or to the posterior end of the midlateral portion of the hypural plate. Simply put, this measurement excludes the length of the caudal fin
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14.4 cm
water depth
- URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/verbatimDepth
- Definition: The depth of seawater at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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1125 m

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Blunt-tooth snailfish. View this species on GBIF