The ragfish body is scaleless and limp, both because of the cartilaginous skeleton, as well as its flabby muscles.
The Fan-tailed rag-fish lives in the bathypelagic, marine, depth range 0 - 1420 m , usually 18 - 732 m environment.
Last visited taxon Icosteus aenigmaticus - Fan-tailed Rag-fish SHOW INFO Taxon - Names = << Go back one level - Icosteus species Fan-tailed Rag-fish Icosteus aenigmaticus Lockington, 1880 More
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