Barbantus elongatus

Barbantus elongatus is a species of deepwater marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Platytroctidae, the tube shoulders. This species was forst formally described in 1970 by the German ichthyologist Gerhard Krefft with its type locality given as the Central Atlantic at 3°00'S, 20°16'W from a depth of around 2,000 m (6,600 ft). This bathypelagic species is known from seven specimens which have been collected from depths between 1,800 and 2,000 m (5,900 and 6,600 ft) alomhg the Mid-Atlantic Ridge...