Moose Eelpout

Barbapellis pterygalces Iglésias, Dettai & Ozouf-Costaz 2012

Barbapellis pterygalces (Moose Eelpout) is a species of ray-finned fishes in the family eelpouts. Individuals can grow to 20.4 cm.

EOL has data for 5 attributes, including:

body size
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBA_VT0100005
- Definition: The size of a multicellular organism
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20.4 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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Southern Ocean: known from a single adult female specimen from off Terre AdÃ©lie (65Â°26'41'' - 65Â°28'10'' S, 139Â°19' 7'' - 139Â°25'57'' E)
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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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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20.4 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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1241 m

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Moose eelpout. View this species on GBIF