Image of Longspine thornyhead
Description:
In the wild these fish dwell at great depth in the oxygen minimum zone feeding largely on brittle stars. Spawned gelatinous egg masses float to the surface where larvae can be recovered and bred.
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- Opisthokonta (opisthokonts)
- Metazoa (Animal)
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- Chordata (Chordates)
- Vertebrata (vertebrates)
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- Osteichthyes
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- Neopterygii
- Teleostei
- Neoteleostei
- Perciformes
- Scorpaenoidei
- Sebastidae (rockfishes)
- Sebastolobus
- Sebastolobus altivelis (Longspine thornyhead)
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- 2005 California Academy of Sciences
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- Lovell and Libby Langstroth
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