''Mirorictus taningi'' is a species of
tubeshoulder
The tubeshoulders are a family, Platytroctidae, of ray-finned fish belonging to the order Alepocephaliformes
Alepocephaliformes is an order of marine deep-sea teleost fishes. It was previously classified as the suborder Alepocephaloidei of the ...
only known from the
Gulf of Panama
The Gulf of Panama () is a gulf of the Pacific Ocean off the southern coast of Panama, where most of eastern Panama's southern shores adjoin it. The Gulf has a maximum width of , a maximum depth of and the size of . The Panama Canal connects the ...
where it is found at depths of around . This species grows to a length of
TL.
References
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Platytroctidae
Fish of the Pacific Ocean
Monotypic ray-finned fish genera
Fish described in 1947
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