Bathygadus garretti
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Bathygadus garretti is a species of rattail
. This is a deep-water fish found in the waters around southern Japan
and northern Taiwan
.
This fish grows to a length of around 50 cm. It has a fairly wide, firm-boned head, terminal mouth with very small, conical teeth and large eyes. The scales
are small, thin and deciduous
.
Rattail
Grenadiers or rattails are generally large, brown to black gadiform marine fish of the family Macrouridae...
. This is a deep-water fish found in the waters around southern Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
and northern Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
.
This fish grows to a length of around 50 cm. It has a fairly wide, firm-boned head, terminal mouth with very small, conical teeth and large eyes. The scales
Scale (zoology)
In most biological nomenclature, a scale is a small rigid plate that grows out of an animal's skin to provide protection. In lepidopteran species, scales are plates on the surface of the insect wing, and provide coloration...
are small, thin and deciduous
Deciduous
Deciduous means "falling off at maturity" or "tending to fall off", and is typically used in reference to trees or shrubs that lose their leaves seasonally, and to the shedding of other plant structures such as petals after flowering or fruit when ripe...
.