The thorntooth grenadier or javelin fish, ''Lepidorhynchus denticulatus'', is a

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 amo ...

, the only member of the

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''Lepidorhynchus'', found around southern

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and

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, at depths of between 200 and 1,000 m. Its length is between 20 and 55 cm.

References

* * Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, ''Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand'', (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) Macrouridae Fish described in 1846 {{Gadiformes-stub