''Paracetonurus flagellicauda'' is a

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of fish in the subfamily Macrourinae (grenadiers or rattails). Some sources place it in the

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'' Pseudonezumia''.

Description

''Paracetonurus flagellicauda'' has a slender body, tapering to a string-like tail (hence its specific name ''flagellicauda'', "whip-tail"). It is white with black markings. Its length is maximum .

Habitat

''Paracetonurus flagellicauda'' lives in the northeast

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and southwest

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, and is common in the

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. It is

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, living at . The species may migrate along the

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s to travel between oceans.

References

Macrouridae Fish described in 1927 Taxa named by Einar Laurentius Koefoed {{Gadiformes-stub