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Silver Rockling
Gaidropsarus argentatus
The Arctic rockling (Gaidropsarus argentatus), also called the silver rockling or Arctic threebeard, is a species of fish in the family Lotidae.
From the article Arctic rockling on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The Arctic rockling's maximum length is 35 cm (14 in). It has two dorsal fins and one anal fin, with the first ray in the first dorsal fin being elongated to form a whisker-like projection. It has 51–53 vertebrae (including urostyle). The upper body is brown-red, its belly pink, there is a blue hue around its head, and the barbels and fin tips are red. The young are silvery in colour, hence the name.
Range & habitat
Arctic rockling live in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean, in very cold water, 0 °C (32 °F) or lower. It is epibenthic, living over gravel, mud or sand at depths of 400–500 m (1,300–1,600 ft), sometimes as shallow as 150 m (490 ft).
Wikipedia: “Habitat”
What it does
Arctic rockling feed on decapod, amphipod, and euphausiid crustaceans, and fish.
== References ==
Wikipedia: “Behaviour”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 459172.