Abyssal Assfish

Bathynectes compressus

Individuals can grow to 62.0 cm.

EOL has data for 4 attributes, including:

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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Western Central Pacific: Papua New Guinea (Ref. 6993) and Philippines
habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
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sea water
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_01000321
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standard length
- URI: http://purl.org/obo/owlATOL_0001659
- Definition: length of a fish measured from the tip of the snout to the posterior end of the last vertebra or to the posterior end of the midlateral portion of the hypural plate. Simply put, this measurement excludes the length of the caudal fin
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62.0 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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1134 m