Macrourus
Encyclopedia
Macrourus is a genus of rattail
s of the family
Macrouridae.
Rattail
Grenadiers or rattails are generally large, brown to black gadiform marine fish of the family Macrouridae...
s of the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Macrouridae.
Species
- Onion-eye grenadier, Macrourus berglax Lacepède, 1801
- Ridge scaled rattailRidge scaled rattailThe ridge scaled rattail, Macrourus carinatus, is a rattail of the genus Macrourus, found in the Great Southern Ocean at depths of between 200 and 1,200 m...
, Macrourus carinatus (Günther, 1878) - Bigeye grenadier, Macrourus holotrachys Günther, 1878
- Whitson's grenadier, Macrourus whitsoni (Regan, 1913)