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Nezumia bairdii

Marlin-Spike
NS GNR
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Taxonomic Hierarchy

Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes) Gadiformes (Cod, Hakes and others) Macrouridae (Grenadiers) Nezumia Nezumia bairdii (Marlin-Spike)

Description

This species account was compiled from Composite (multiple sources) (Carpenter, K.E. (ed.) 2002. The living marine resources of the Western Central Atlantic. FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes. FAO, Rome.) and processed using AI-assisted text extraction. It may contain errors in spelling, punctuation, or formatting. When citing, please reference the original source rather than this page. Learn more about our species accounts.

Characters

Body shape: elongated. Snout pointed; naked area on snout confined to median-ventral strip, otherwise head surfaces completely scaled. Spinules on scales slender, conical to lanceolate, arranged in convergent rows. Color when fresh gray with violet hue on trunk and lower jaw; silvery reflections on gill cover, parts of the suborbital, and trunk and tail below the lateral line; pelvic fins and membrane between spinous dorsal ray and first segmented ray black; pectoral and median fins otherwise dusky; oral and branchial cavities mostly black. Striking features: striking shape of body.

Distribution

Florida Straits to Grand Banks, NE34.

Habitat Associations

Marine. benthopelagic. depth range 16-1000 m.

Biology

To 40 cm.
Benthic, reported as deep as 2295m (Ref. 58426). Taken much shallower in areas with cold surface waters. Feeds primarily on euphausiids, amphipods, and polychaetes, although a 200 mm individual had many copepods in its stomach (Ref. 1371).
IUCN Red List Status: N.E. (N.E.). Resilience: Medium (K=0.28).

Commercial or Environmental Importance

Fisheries: minor commercial.

References

Cohen, D.M., T. Inada, T. Iwamoto and N. Scialabba (1990) FAO species catalogue. Vol. 10. Gadiform fishes of the world (Order Gadiformes). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cods, hakes, grenadiers and other gadiform fishes known to date. FAO Fish. Synop. 125(10). Rome: FAO. 442 p.
Langton, R.W. and R.E. Bowman (1980) Food of fifteen northwest Atlantic Gadiform fishes. NOAA Tech. Rep. NMFS SSRF-740, U.S. Department of Commerce.

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