The North Pacific frostfish, ''Benthodesmus pacificus'', is a
cutlassfish
The cutlassfishes are about 45 species of predatory ray-finned fish in the family Trichiuridae of the order Scombriformes found in seas throughout the world. Fish of this family are long, slender, and generally steely blue or silver in colour, ...
of the
family
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Trichiuridae found in the north
Pacific Ocean
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between
latitude
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s 50° N and 30° N at depths of . Its length is up to .
References
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* Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, ''Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand'', (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982)
Trichiuridae
Fish described in 1970
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