The feeler fish, ''Bathypterois longifilis'', a grinner of the

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, is found around

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References

* * * Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, ''Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand'', (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) {{Taxonbar, from=Q2557765 Ipnopidae Fish described in 1878 Taxa named by Albert Günther