''Cetonurichthys subinflatus'', the smallpore whiptail, is a species of

rattail Grenadiers or rattails are generally large, brown to black gadiform marine fish of the subfamily Macrourinae, the largest subfamily of the family Macrouridae. Found at great depths from the Arctic to Antarctic, members of this subfamily are amon ...

found off western Australia. It is a

benthic The benthic zone is the ecological region at the lowest level of a body of water such as an ocean, lake, or stream, including the sediment surface and some sub-surface layers. The name comes from ancient Greek, βένθος (bénthos), meaning "t ...

fish which occurs at depths of on the

continental slope A continental margin is the outer edge of continental crust abutting oceanic crust under coastal waters. It is one of the three major zones of the ocean floor, the other two being deep-ocean basins and mid-ocean ridges. The continental marg ...

. This species grows to a length of .

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Fishes of Australia : ''Cetonurichthys subinflatus''
smallpore whiptail Marine fish of Western Australia Taxa named by Yuri Igorevich Sazonov Taxa named by Yuri Nikolaevich Shcherbachev smallpore whiptail {{Gadiformes-stub