Pale Smiling Whiptail

Ventrifossa gomoni Iwamoto & Williams 1999

Ventrifossa gomoni (Pale Smiling Whiptail) is a species of ray-finned fishes in the family grenadiers. Individuals can grow to 30.0 cm.

EOL has data for 7 attributes, including:

body size
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBA_VT0100005
- Definition: The size of a multicellular organism
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30 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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Eastern Indian Ocean: Australia
habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
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bathyal zone
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000026
- Definition: The mariine bathyal zone biome comprises regions of the marine benthic biome between approximately 200 m and 3000 m depth. This zone generally coincides with the continental slope.
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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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30.0 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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450 m

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Pale smiling whiptail. View this species on GBIF